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From: Pratyush Das <reikdas@gmail.com>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org
Subject: Re: HID Driver
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2019 18:23:37 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFzLTskQh5zRNZKQj4nqf+xowpxdxhm8mh4MTDPyUiws1K_SSA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190314200938.GA16742@kroah.com>


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Hi,

I want the device operated by the Arduino Uno board to be recognised as a
mouse by my Linux OS. To control the cursor I am using the X11 API.

Thanks,

On Fri, 15 Mar, 2019, 01:39 Greg KH, <greg@kroah.com> wrote:

> 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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  reply	other threads:[~2019-03-15 12:55 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
2019-03-15 12:53   ` Pratyush Das [this message]
2019-03-15 14:20     ` Greg KH
2019-03-15 14:58     ` Yann Droneaud

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