Re: HID bus

[Dmitry Torokhov]

On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 11:25:43AM +0200, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Apr 2008, Anssi Hannula wrote:
> 
> > Why not just do something like
> > 
> > #define HID_DEVICE(vend, dev) \
> > 	.match_flags = USB_DEVICE_ID_MATCH_DEVICE | \
> > 		       USB_DEVICE_ID_MATCH_INT_CLASS, \
> > 	.idVendor = (vend), \
> > 	.idProduct = (prod), \
> > 	.bInterfaceClass = USB_INTERFACE_CLASS_HID
> > (see linux/usb.h)
> > 
> > and use USB hotplugging?
> > Or do we plan to match against something else as well, such as hid
> > reports or something?
> 
> No, we plan to do matching based solely on VID/PID. The report-specific 
> stuff is then handled between the specific driver and HID generic code.
> 

Hmm, [ab]using USB modalias makes me a bit uneasy. What about bluetooth
HID devices?

-- 
Dmitry
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