From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262281AbVAZMUg (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Jan 2005 07:20:36 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262282AbVAZMUg (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Jan 2005 07:20:36 -0500 Received: from alog0179.analogic.com ([208.224.220.194]:34432 "EHLO chaos.analogic.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262281AbVAZMUO (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Jan 2005 07:20:14 -0500 Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 07:19:51 -0500 (EST) From: linux-os Reply-To: linux-os@analogic.com To: dsuljic@mmm.com cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Fw: How to submit device ID into hid blacklist. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 dsuljic@mmm.com wrote: > > > > > Hi, > I work for 3M Touch Systems (former MicroTouch) as software engineer and > our main product is touchscreen as input device. > Recently, we have released hid compliant devices (they work perfectly under > Windows OS), but Linux hid driver does not support us correctly. In kernel > 2.4 hid driver recognizes our devices and tries to interpret events in best > manner, but since we are absolute pointing device it was a bit tricky with > hid mouse on same system. I kernel 2.6 hid core driver grubs our devices > but does not recognize us as hid device. So we decided, for now, to disable > hid driver of recognizing our hid devices. > My question is how can we submit changes to kernel tree. So why don't you make the appropriate changes to the existing source code so it supports your device? > Best regards, > > Damir Suljic > 3M Touch Systems > 3M Optical Systems Division > 300 Griffin Brook Park Drive > Methuen, MA 01844 > 978-659-9386 > dsuljic@mmm.com > www.3Mtouch.com > www.touchshowcase.com > Cheers, Dick Johnson Penguin : Linux version 2.6.10 on an i686 machine (5537.79 BogoMips). Notice : All mail here is now cached for review by Dictator Bush. 98.36% of all statistics are fiction.