Re: Question re hiddev

On Saturday 10 March 2007, Jiri Kosina wrote:
>On Fri, 9 Mar 2007, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> Oh?  I wasn't aware of that.  What other data paths can it use besides
>> a usb port?
>
>Until 2.6.20, HID in kernel was USB-only thing. In 2.6.20 I have
> distilled the generic HID layer, which is now also hooked by the
> Bluetooth code, as there are many Bluetooth devices with conform to HID
> specification, and it was previously impossible for Bluetooth devices
> to receive full reporting support in linux, without duplicating tons of
> USB code into bluetooth.
>
>There are still pending issues though, one of them being converting the
>HID layer to bus, so that individual device that don't wish the certain
>device to be handled by generic HID code, register on this HID bus and
>handle the HID events from given device in a unified way (for example
>current Wacom driver would use this facility, among other). As a bonus,
>this is going to shrink the hid_blacklist, which currently has to
> contain all devices for which there are specialized drivers.

That sounds good Jiri, and has to potential to shrink the object code from 
the sounds of it.  I don't think it will effect the answer to my question 
though. :-)

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
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