From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Pratyush Das <reikdas@gmail.com>
Cc: kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org
Subject: Re: HID Driver
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2019 13:09:38 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190314200938.GA16742@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFzLTsnGkpq4J5ooodg22L_vhvHAfe8NHYeJyYNL7qTTAxLADw@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Mar 14, 2019 at 11:18:34PM +0530, Pratyush Das wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a device operated via an Arduino UNO board. I would like to write a
> driver for it so that my computer running linux recognises it natively.
>
> I have no experience writing drivers. Where should I start to specifically
> do something like this? Are there any templates or guides for drivers for
> this sort of thing specifically?
>
> Do I need to start over from scratch - learning how to write drivers? If
> so, could you recommend any resources in particular which would take me on
> the path to write drivers for HIDs in particular(to begin with)?
You should not need to write any kernel driver for Linux to support a
HID device, it's all included already.
HAve you tried using your device on Linux? What did, or did not, work
for you?
thanks,
greg k-h
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-03-14 20:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-03-14 17:48 HID Driver Pratyush Das
2019-03-14 20:09 ` Greg KH [this message]
2019-03-15 12:53 ` Pratyush Das
2019-03-15 14:20 ` Greg KH
2019-03-15 14:58 ` Yann Droneaud
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