Re: [Bluez-devel] Hiddev support

["Olivier Crête" <tester@tester.ca>]

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> > 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.

This is really nice, is there a public cvs/svn/git tree somewhere ? I've
been porting mx5000lib [1] to C and hiddev (while running in HID mode)
and it seems that I'm missing some of the information that's probably
not sent in proper format. 

[1] http://sourceforge.net/projects/mx5000lib/
 
P.S. lists.sf.net's mailman isn't letting me subscribe, so please keep me in CC
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Olivier Crête
tester@tester.ca

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