Re: [RFC] HID bus design overview.
"Dmitry Torokhov" <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.usb.devel,gmane.linux.kernel |
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On 4/2/07, Jiri Kosina <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, 2 Apr 2007, Li Yu wrote: > > > Hi, I do not think that using blacklist in base driver for this purpose > > is good idea. If so, we need modify source when each new HID device > > driver come, that's so ugly. > > Hi Li, > > well, the drivers are exceptions from the generic handling, so creating an > exceptional rule (entry in hid_blacklist) for them is not that bad. OK, > it's not the nicest thing on earth probably, but serves the purpose in > current vendors-trying-to-break-hardware-in-the-most-original-way world > quite well. > Potentially we could even generate 2nd blacklist table automatically by scanning MODULE_DEVICE_TABLEs for all drivers in HID directory and merge it with the table we currently maintain in hid-input.c > This is going to cause some headache to out-of-tree drivers. Oh well, do > we care that much? They still can be made to work using bind/unbind via sysfs, but at this moment there are 0 drivers for HID bus and hopefully people will be submittin them for inclusion. -- Dmitry ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ [email protected] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel