RE: [PATCH] hid: usbhid: New hid quirks for Panasonic Elite PanaboardT-780 and T-880
From: Jiri Kosina
Date: Wed Nov 03 2010 - 09:28:22 EST
On Tue, 2 Nov 2010, Anton Chikin wrote:
> Thank you for your feedback.
>
> With the generic hid driver device is working in mouse-mode, turning it
> into the huge touchscreen, which is completely useless for the end-user.
Still, at least some very basic and limited/crippled functionality is
there. So my preferred mode of operation now would be having the device
being claimed by generic driver and wait for your proper full-fledged
driver.
> On some Linux systems hid driver is loaded from init.rd image, so we
> can't feed our quirks to it while boot process and we can't rebuild
> init.rd image on the user's machine because some Linux distributives
> doesn't have special tools preinstalled.
>
> We are going to submit our driver to the Linux kernel quickly, so
> everyone can improve it.
That would be great, I'll be happy to review and merge it. Are you
planning to have it as a driver on HID bus, or completely separate USB
driver?
Thanks,
--
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs, Novell Inc.
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