Re: [Bluez-devel] Hiddev support

[Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>]

Hi Olivier,

> I recently got a logitech mx5000 bluetooth desktop. I got it to work
> with bluez without too many problems (with the CVS hid2hci). It seems to
> behave mostly like the bluetooth dinovo. I also want to control the
> display and use the special keys. But they are carried in hidp input
> reports of type 3 (what the bluetooth hid spec calls "features"). I
> looked at the 2.6.18-mh7 patch and it has support for full HID or at
> least a way to get/send reports from userspace, but it seems that hiddev
> has been removed from it? Why? Also, can't the HID code just be shared
> with the USB version since its essentially the same anmd you'd get free
> hiddev. There are events comments in the HID code saying it should be
> independant from USB, might be a good occasion to do it.

this is work in progress and I have seen some nice patches for sharing
the HID layer between USB and Bluetooth. We will also have a feature
that might be called hidraw to directly access the HID reports. So
please stay tuned.

Regards

Marcel



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