diff --git a/drivers/hid/hid-magicmouse.c b/drivers/hid/hid-magicmouse.c
index 318cc40df92d6c8ba4ab39535f9c3e9a793da315..82f0c3d741f20b54deec5460947d3c05978b255d 100644
--- a/drivers/hid/hid-magicmouse.c
+++ b/drivers/hid/hid-magicmouse.c
@@ -499,9 +499,17 @@ static int magicmouse_probe(struct hid_device *hdev,
 	}
 	report->size = 6;
 
+	/*
+	 * The device reponds with 'invalid report id' when feature
+	 * report switching it into multitouch mode is sent to it.
+	 *
+	 * This results in -EIO from the _raw low-level transport callback,
+	 * but there seems to be no other way of switching the mode.
+	 * Thus the super-ugly hacky success check below.
+	 */
 	ret = hdev->hid_output_raw_report(hdev, feature, sizeof(feature),
 			HID_FEATURE_REPORT);
-	if (ret != sizeof(feature)) {
+	if (ret != -EIO) {
 		hid_err(hdev, "unable to request touch data (%d)\n", ret);
 		goto err_stop_hw;
 	}