From: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
To: Daniel Bonekeeper <thehazard@gmail.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, 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: Thu, 06 Jul 2006 11:35:09 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44ACE75D.9030003@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e1e1d5f40607051905w4a755a35oa1c81666fd194c83@mail.gmail.com>
Daniel Bonekeeper wrote:
> Do you currently have any page/doc/wiki about the current efforts in
> writing an API to handle fingerprint stuff ? (as in (3))
No, but feel free to use the dpfp wiki if you want to start one.
> Anyways, how idmouse got into the mainstream kernel, then ?
You are asking this because its usability is questionable?
Before you start on any of the more advanced code such as unified API
and fingerprint recognition, you need the basic device support in place.
The idmouse driver does this.
Greg is particularly keen on including semi-working driver code in the
Linux kernel even if there is no complete picture, because it really
raises awareness and development efforts. After all, if idmouse wasn't
included because it doesn't form a complete fingerprint login system,
I'd probably have never heard of it and would have no clue about it's
capabilities.
Daniel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-06 10:30 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
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 [this message]
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
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