Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 6 Mar 2007 08:25:59 -0500 | From | "Dmitry Torokhov" <> | Subject | Re: [DOC] The documentation for HID Simple Driver Interface 0.5.0 |
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Hi Marcel,
On 3/5/07, Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org> wrote: > Hi Dmitry, > > > > This also means that the current keyboard and mouse > > > input devices will become a HID driver. > > > > Are you talking about usbmouse and usbkbd? > > no, because if I recall correctly these are the boot mode drivers and > actually not used at all in any modern distribution. > > For me the task of converting HID reports into input events shouldn't be > actually the job of the HID core layer. My understanding is that the HID > core should support multiple transport layers. This is currently > achieved through the hid_device abstraction and used by the USB and by > the Bluetooth subsystem. This is the lower interface to HID. On the > upper interface I like to see a driver like interface. So we can > register specific drivers that can handle specific use cases or vendor > specific reports. For standard keyboard and mouse reports we however > should have a standard driver that can handle most of them. > > For identification we actually do have the bus type, vendor id and > product id available. We also can register drivers for specific report > ids or usages. > > I do like the HID simple driver idea, but it is not a simple driver, it > should be a generic driver interface. >
Ah, OK. Then we are in complete agreement ;)
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