Re: [linux-usb-devel] [DOC] The documentation for HID Simple Driver Interface 0.5.0

Jiri Kosina
2007-03-06T07:38:03Z

On Tue, 6 Mar 2007, Robert Marquardt wrote:

> I do not know too much about the Linux innards, but my opinion is that
> the HID API to userland should be the bare reports. Windows is handling
> it that way for a good reason. Far too many HID devices have either
> non-informative descriptors (declaring a byte array report) or declaring
> a report which does not match the data contained. Parsing a report is
> definitely a userland job.

Which is exactly what the new hidraw interface is going to provide.

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Jiri Kosina