Re: USB HID Driver using gadgetfs?

David Brownell <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.usb.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Monday 20 August 2007, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Aug 2007, Marc Singer wrote:
> 
> > I found an old thread, three years old, on the dev list about writing a
> > HID driver with gadgetfs.  Is there anything newer in this vein?
> > This just seems like it should be really easy so I'd expect that someone
> > has done it already.

I never heard anything back.  I suspect the person starting it was
not versed well enough in USB to succeed...


> Hi Marc,
> 
> haven't heard anything about userspace HID driver written on top of 
> gadgetfs lately.
> 
> Is there any specific reason you are looking for it? Is there anything 
> that can't be achieved by hiddev (or better, by hidraw, which is currently 
> in -mm).

Jiri -- take a look again at what gadgetfs does.  You're talking
host side, receiving HID events.  He's talking peripheral side,
issuing them.  (That slightly oversimplifies, HID is actually
bidirectional, but that's the data flow for e.g. a keypress.)

- Dave

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