From: Bill Gribble <grib@billgribble.com>
To: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: usbhid: Changes since 2.6.28 in quirk handling?
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 10:29:07 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1237386547.4954.10.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.00.0903181511010.12145@wotan.suse.de>
On Wed, 2009-03-18 at 15:14 +0100, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> we have drivers (and even whole architectures) supported by the kernel,
> which have less than 5 users in the world, that's not a big deal.
Great to hear that! I will try to clean up my patches according to the
guidelines and send them in.
> Looking at your patch, the only thing you need is sending a special URB to
> the device in order to make it operational, right?
That's right.
> Please look at hid-sony driver, which does exactly that for some of the
> PS3 devices.
>
> You then only need to add your device to hid_blacklist[], so that generic
> driver doesn't get bound to it and it'd be driven by your special driver.
OK, thanks for the advice. I will do that.
Bill Gribble
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-18 14:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-13 12:39 usbhid: Changes since 2.6.28 in quirk handling? Bill Gribble
2009-03-18 14:14 ` Jiri Kosina
2009-03-18 14:29 ` Bill Gribble [this message]
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