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From: Pascal Terjan <pterjan@mandriva.com>
To: Ron <ron@debian.org>
Cc: linux-input@vger.kernel.org, linuxwacom-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Linuxwacom-devel] [PATCH] Use hid blacklist in usbmouse/usbkbd
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 13:46:14 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1196081174.12642.13.camel@plop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071126111328.GA9235@homer.shelbyville.oz>


On lun, 2007-11-26 at 21:43 +1030, Ron wrote:
> Hi Pascal,
> 
> There is a less intrusive way to handle this for any reasonably modern
> 2.6 kernel...  see the check_driver script in the Debian package.
> 
> It's called from udev when the device is plugged and if it is a wacom
> tablet, it will repossess it from any other driver and bind it to the
> wacom one.
> 
> We had a more brutal hack that did this for 2.4 too, but this method
> is I believe the recommended one now (or at least supported without
> further kernel patching since about 2.6.13-ish).

Yes this can be workarounded in userspace, but why having a blacklist in
HID if the individual usbhid drivers still take the device ? And why
having a driver to handle a device when a better one exists ?

-- 
Pascal Terjan
Ingénieur Conseil
Mandriva (ex Mandrakesoft)
Tel +33 (0) 1 40 41 17 51 - Fax +33 (0) 1 40 41 92 00

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  reply	other threads:[~2007-11-26 12:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-26 10:58 [PATCH] Use hid blacklist in usbmouse/usbkbd Pascal Terjan
2007-11-26 11:13 ` [Linuxwacom-devel] " Ron
2007-11-26 12:46   ` Pascal Terjan [this message]
2007-11-26 14:04     ` Ron
2007-11-26 12:50 ` Jiri Kosina

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