Re: [GIT PATCH] USB autosuspend fixes for 2.6.23-rc6

[Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>]

On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 10:55:46AM +0200, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> For the rest of the HID quirks -- most of them are also workarounds for 
> broken classess of devices. Usually, they claim to be HID-compliant device 
> in their file descriptor, but they do not follow the spec (they send 
> inverted axes values, send usage codes that violate the specification, 
> etc), but we can easily work around these bugs by a few lines of code and 
> let the devices to be handled by usbhid flawlessly. I guess this is worth 
> it.

The reason for this is that the only way to write a userspace "driver"
for USB devices on Windows versions prior to Vista was to be a HID
device.  Your userspace program could then easily grab the device and
control it.

This could be fixed in Linux by providing a way to have driver
"heirachy" for USB whereby a vendor/product id providing driver would
take a higher priority than a class driver.

But we've been talking about that for over 7 years now :)

thanks,

greg k-h