Re: [linux-usb-devel] [RFC] HID bus design overview.

Marcel Holtmann
2007-04-04T14:55:13Z

Hi Jiri,

> > What's the position of hidraw? It only is used when all other driver is
> > not usable on some report? or, it should be stick every working device.
>
> Current implementation (as you can see it in -mm or in my hid.git tree) is
> creating hidraw interface for just every HID device/interface. But this
> will get changed before merge.
>
> Passing just everything to hidraw is not a good option, as this could lead
> to confusion and duplicating of input events (i.e. in-kernel hid driver
> processes the report and generates input_event(), and also userland driver
> obtains data from hidraw and generates input event through uinput ... not
> good).

at some point I thought it would be nice to have something like hiddump
(like tcpdump), but that can be easily achieved with hcidump and usbmon
on the lower level.

So if hidraw claims a report id, the kernel should no longer handle it.

Regards

Marcel