From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Message-ID: <47EA7BDC.90802@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:37:48 +0100 From: Jiri Slaby MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Marcel Holtmann CC: Maxim Krasnyansky , bluez-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [PATCH] HIDD: add psm offset possibilty References: <1206543023-10767-1-git-send-email-jirislaby@gmail.com> <47EA793A.7040003@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed List-ID: On 03/26/2008 05:33 PM, Marcel Holtmann wrote: >>>> This feature allows using cell phones as remote controllers, because it >>>> usually denies to bind psms lower than 0x1000. >>> you have to explain why this is needed and useful since even creating >>> the HID device needs root capabilities. >>> And why for example using the input service with its D-Bus API is not >>> working for you. >> >> Sorry, I wasn't clear enough. >> >> The daemon runs on standard PC, and on mobile phone there is an java >> application (on whatever platform) which can bind only psms >= 0x1000 >> (on most phones). So to allow taking control of hid by a cell phone, >> hidd must listen on odd psms >= 0x1000 (i use hidd --server on pc, >> java-client in my current application [1]). > > okay, but the offset is too hackish. Simply provide two options to > overwrite the PSM value for control and interrupt channels. :) okay, thanks.