From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Daniel Bonekeeper <thehazard@gmail.com>
Cc: Alon Bar-Lev <alon.barlev@gmail.com>,
kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Driver for Microsoft USB Fingerprint Reader
Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2006 17:13:41 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060704001341.GA923@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e1e1d5f40607031704kec2ff68w324d3d8ad111c46b@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 08:04:39PM -0400, Daniel Bonekeeper wrote:
> Ok, I'll develop this in a cleaner way. But did you get the idea ? Let
> me know if you think that this is something worthy to develop so I can
> work on it. There are some details that I need to study about the USB
> layer to get the whole picture so I can avoid redundant stuff.
>
> I just think that it would be cool to be able to know the capabilities
> of each device connected to our system, and who's better to tell us
> that than the device drivers? =]
> This way we can know, for example, that a webcam can do 30fps at
> 640x480 and the output type of the video, independently of which
> webcam (and driver) we're using...
Take a look at the V4L2 layer :)
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-04 0:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-03 6:51 Driver for Microsoft USB Fingerprint Reader Daniel Bonekeeper
2006-07-03 8:52 ` Daniel Drake
2006-07-03 10:04 ` Alon Bar-Lev
2006-07-03 17:37 ` [OT] " Alistair John Strachan
2006-07-03 20:16 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-07-03 18:04 ` Daniel Bonekeeper
2006-07-03 18:16 ` Alon Bar-Lev
2006-07-03 20:53 ` Daniel Bonekeeper
2006-07-03 21:45 ` Greg KH
2006-07-03 22:11 ` Daniel Bonekeeper
2006-07-03 22:26 ` Greg KH
2006-07-03 23:24 ` Daniel Bonekeeper
2006-07-03 23:29 ` Greg KH
2006-07-04 0:04 ` Daniel Bonekeeper
2006-07-04 0:13 ` Greg KH [this message]
2006-07-05 17:58 ` Daniel Drake
2006-07-05 18:09 ` Daniel Bonekeeper
2006-07-05 18:55 ` Daniel Drake
2006-07-05 19:46 ` Daniel Bonekeeper
2006-07-05 23:23 ` Daniel Drake
2006-07-06 2:05 ` Daniel Bonekeeper
2006-07-06 10:35 ` Daniel Drake
2006-07-04 3:56 ` Daniel Bonekeeper
2006-07-04 3:58 ` Greg KH
2006-07-03 22:35 ` Alan Cox
2006-07-03 22:49 ` Daniel Bonekeeper
2006-07-04 8:39 ` Alan Cox
2006-07-05 4:01 ` Bill Davidsen
2006-07-05 15:55 ` Daniel Bonekeeper
2006-07-03 11:44 ` Alon Bar-Lev
2006-07-03 15:00 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2006-07-03 17:09 ` Alon Bar-Lev
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-07-05 16:32 Daniel Bonekeeper
2006-07-06 4:48 linux
2006-07-06 12:26 ` Daniel Drake
2006-07-06 17:38 ` Alan Cox
2006-07-06 17:49 ` Joel Jaeggli
[not found] <6vtYr-w2-5@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <6vFQ5-1iV-71@gated-at.bofh.it>
2006-07-06 21:39 ` Bodo Eggert
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20060704001341.GA923@kroah.com \
--to=greg@kroah.com \
--cc=alon.barlev@gmail.com \
--cc=kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=thehazard@gmail.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox