Re: [DOC] The documentation for HID Simple Driver Interface 0.5.0

From: Jiri Kosina <jikos@jikos.cz>
To: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Cc: Li Yu <raise.sail@gmail.com>,
	Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>,
	Greg Kroah Hartman <greg@kroah.com>,
	linux-usb-devel <linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Vincent Legoll <vincentlegoll@gmail.com>,
	"Zephaniah E. Hull" <warp@aehallh.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Harold Sargeant <harold-sargeant@ntlworld.com>,
	liyu <liyu@ccoss.com.cn>
Subject: Re: [DOC] The documentation for HID Simple Driver Interface 0.5.0
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 22:47:10 +0100 (CET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0703052244490.10909@twin.jikos.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1173127471.6638.96.camel@aeonflux.holtmann.net>

On Mon, 5 Mar 2007, Marcel Holtmann wrote:

> actually, I don't think we need a simple driver interface. We need a HID 
> driver interface in general. For example that you can register a driver 
> for one or multiple report ID and then it handles input and output for 
> these report IDs. This also means that the current keyboard and mouse 
> input devices will become a HID driver.

Hi Marcel,

sorry, this is not clear to me - what keyboard and mouse devices are you 
talking here precisely? As not all keyboard and mouse devices are HID, 
this is probably not what you've meant ... ? Thanks.

> In addition to the kernel HID driver we might also when have a new 
> hidraw (or modified hiddev) interface that allows to handle specific 
> report ID from a userspace application. Especially when it comes to LED 
> displays or UPS systems.

I have already written some code of hidraw interface, but it's not yet 
finished due to too many other pending things.

Thanks,

-- 
Jiri Kosina