Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 13411] New: Barscanner (USB HID Keyboard) stopped functioning in kernels >= 2.6.28

["Rémi Cattiau" <remi@cattiau.com>]

I'll be @ home in 10 hours i'll check but it seems very ugly from thoses 
manufacturers. We may find a official list from some authorities about 
that no ?

Rémi

Le 01/12/2009 11:40, Jiri Kosina a écrit :
> On Sat, 28 Nov 2009, Guido Dorssers wrote:
>
>    
>>> The problem apparently [1] is, that the vendor has been super-creative and
>>> assigned the same combination of idVendor/idProduct to completely
>>> different devices. Oh well.
>>>
>>> Remi, could you please check your device against the lsusb data provided
>>> in bugzilla to check whether there is any possibility to distinguish these
>>> devices, so that we could put some ugly check in place probably?
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> [1] http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/2/10/434
>>>
>>>        
>> Hi all,
>>
>> A belated thanks for having pointed me into the right direction to get my
>> barcodescanner operational. However, as a thought since the bug is still
>> present, why not solve it with something as simple as making the blacklisting
>> user-configurable instead of blacklisting valid HID devices on purpose?
>>      
> Hi,
>
> actually, my current plan is to remove the blacklist entry for this
> combination of VID/PID completely, and let the user decide and unbind the
> driver via sysfs eventually, if needed (maybe together with warning in
> dmesg).
>
> As the vendor apparently messed up horribly, as far as I understand, I
> don't really see another option.
>
>    


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