Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 5 Mar 2007 22:47:10 +0100 (CET) | From | Jiri Kosina <> | Subject | Re: [DOC] The documentation for HID Simple Driver Interface 0.5.0 |
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On Mon, 5 Mar 2007, Marcel Holtmann wrote:
> actually, I don't think we need a simple driver interface. We need a HID > driver interface in general. For example that you can register a driver > for one or multiple report ID and then it handles input and output for > these report IDs. This also means that the current keyboard and mouse > input devices will become a HID driver.
Hi Marcel,
sorry, this is not clear to me - what keyboard and mouse devices are you talking here precisely? As not all keyboard and mouse devices are HID, this is probably not what you've meant ... ? Thanks.
> In addition to the kernel HID driver we might also when have a new > hidraw (or modified hiddev) interface that allows to handle specific > report ID from a userspace application. Especially when it comes to LED > displays or UPS systems.
I have already written some code of hidraw interface, but it's not yet finished due to too many other pending things.
Thanks,
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