Re: [DOC] The documentation for HID Simple Driver Interface 0.5.0

[Jiri Kosina]

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,

-- 
Jiri Kosina
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