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SubjectRe: Driver for Microsoft USB Fingerprint Reader
On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 08:04:39PM -0400, Daniel Bonekeeper wrote:
> Ok, I'll develop this in a cleaner way. But did you get the idea ? Let
> me know if you think that this is something worthy to develop so I can
> work on it. There are some details that I need to study about the USB
> layer to get the whole picture so I can avoid redundant stuff.
>
> I just think that it would be cool to be able to know the capabilities
> of each device connected to our system, and who's better to tell us
> that than the device drivers? =]
> This way we can know, for example, that a webcam can do 30fps at
> 640x480 and the output type of the video, independently of which
> webcam (and driver) we're using...

Take a look at the V4L2 layer :)

thanks,

greg k-h
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