Re: How do you keep input from a USB Mag card reader from going to STDIN?

[Janusz Krzysztofik <jkrzyszt@tis.icnet.pl>]

Jiri Kosina wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Jun 2009, Mark Butsch wrote:
>> How would I disconnect the "kbd" handler from the mag card reader (and 
>> the mag card reader from the "kbd" handler) or is that the wrong 
>> approach?
> 
> You can either unbind HID driver from the device completely, and write 
> your own userspace driver using libusb.
> 
> Or you can patch the HID driver not to attach this device to inpu 
> subsystem, and only trigger creation of /dev/hidraw (or /dev/hiddev 
> respectively), and write user-space application that will process the HID 
> events from these device nodes, and process them in your application as 
> needed.

I thouhgt this could be done from userspace without any kernel 
modification, just the way "input-events -g" does it. Am I missing anything?

Janusz