From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alan Jenkins Subject: Re: issues with unknown/new alias [retraction] Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 09:49:41 +0100 Message-ID: <50519E25.7080007@gmail.com> References: <50518A75.4030608@codemercs.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail-ee0-f46.google.com ([74.125.83.46]:55935 "EHLO mail-ee0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751863Ab2IMItq (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Sep 2012 04:49:46 -0400 In-Reply-To: <50518A75.4030608@codemercs.com> Sender: linux-input-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-input@vger.kernel.org To: Christoph Jung Cc: linux-modules@vger.kernel.org, linux-input@vger.kernel.org On 13/09/12 08:25, Christoph Jung wrote: > Hello, > > I am from the company "Code Mercenaries GmbH" from Germany. We have > some USB HID devices wich work with Linux. > Since kernel version 2.6 our default products will be included in the > kernel. > > Devicedetails > VendorID: 0x07C0 > ProductIDs: 0x1500, 0x1501, 0x1511, 0x1512, 0x1503 > Devicename: iowarrior > > Now we have some new custom product IDs but this two new devices get > no node in dev/usb/ , but I can find the with "lsusb". > If I run "modinfo iowarrior" there will be 5 alias (with the default > pIDs) . > > The two new pIDs are: 0x158A, 0x158B > > I have not much experiance with linux (I work with Ubuntu 12.04). What > have be done to get the device nodes to work with them? > Have I add some rules? Or have I edit the iowarrior.ko? > Argh, sorry, I misread your email and went off on one. You will indeed need to "edit iowarrior.ko". I.e. change the C source code to include the new pIDs, recompile, test, get patches merged into the mainline kernel etc :). It's also possible to test new devices with an old driver, i.e. before you modify it. Possible instructions: http://www.ha19.no/usb/ Alan