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From: Robert Marquardt <marquardt@codemercs.com>
To: Jiri Kosina <jikos@jikos.cz>
Cc: Li Yu <raise.sail@gmail.com>,
	Vincent Legoll <vincentlegoll@gmail.com>,
	linux-usb-devel <linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>,
	Harold Sargeant <harold-sargeant@ntlworld.com>,
	Greg Kroah Hartman <greg@kroah.com>,
	Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [linux-usb-devel] [DOC] The documentation for HID Simple Driver Interface 0.5.0
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2007 08:01:50 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <45ED11DE.4080304@codemercs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0703052304070.10909@twin.jikos.cz>

Jiri Kosina wrote:

> In addition to that, as I stated in some previous e-mail, I am currently 
> working on new 'hidraw' interface, which will provide more flexibility to 
> userland applications willing to operate on raw HID data, than they 
> currently have with hiddev.

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.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-03-06  7:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-05  7:32 [DOC] The documentation for HID Simple Driver Interface 0.5.0 Li Yu
2007-03-05 20:44 ` Marcel Holtmann
2007-03-05 20:11   ` Dmitry Torokhov
2007-03-05 22:40     ` Marcel Holtmann
2007-03-06 13:25       ` Dmitry Torokhov
2007-03-06 13:47       ` Jiri Kosina
2007-03-06 18:57         ` Marcel Holtmann
2007-03-05 21:47   ` Jiri Kosina
2007-03-05 22:12 ` [linux-usb-devel] " Jiri Kosina
2007-03-05 22:27   ` Dmitry Torokhov
2007-03-06  1:37     ` Liyu
     [not found]     ` <45ECC5A4.20203@ccoss.com.cn>
2007-03-06  9:40       ` Jiri Kosina
2007-03-06 11:52       ` Harold Sargeant
2007-03-06  7:01   ` Robert Marquardt [this message]
2007-03-06  7:37     ` Jiri Kosina
2007-03-19 10:44 ` [RFC] HID bus design overview Li Yu
2007-03-26  8:27   ` [linux-usb-devel] " Marcel Holtmann
2007-03-28  1:58     ` Li Yu
     [not found]     ` <4609CAF2.3040303@ccoss.com.cn>
2007-03-28  7:51       ` Jiri Kosina
2007-03-28 19:00         ` Dmitry Torokhov
2007-03-28 19:13           ` Jiri Kosina
2007-03-30  3:06           ` Li Yu
2007-03-30  4:33             ` Dmitry Torokhov
2007-03-30  5:37               ` Li Yu
2007-03-30 16:13                 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2007-03-31 22:49               ` Jiri Kosina
2007-04-02  1:47                 ` Li Yu
2007-04-02  4:15                   ` Dmitry Torokhov
2007-04-02  7:07                     ` Li Yu
2007-04-02  7:42                       ` Greg KH
2007-04-02  9:34                       ` Jiri Kosina
2007-04-02 12:40                         ` Dmitry Torokhov
2007-04-02  4:09                 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2007-04-02  9:37                   ` Jiri Kosina
2007-04-02 10:14                     ` Robert Marquardt
2007-04-02 12:21           ` Marcel Holtmann
2007-04-02 12:33             ` Jiri Kosina
2007-04-02 16:47               ` Marcel Holtmann
2007-04-03  1:15                 ` Li Yu
2007-04-03  3:42                   ` Dmitry Torokhov
2007-04-03  8:57                   ` Jiri Kosina
2007-04-04  0:55                     ` Li Yu
2007-04-04 14:54                     ` Marcel Holtmann
2007-04-04 23:01                     ` Adam Kropelin
2007-04-04 23:12                       ` Jiri Kosina
2007-04-04 23:34                         ` Adam Kropelin
2007-04-05  8:36                           ` Jiri Kosina
2007-04-05 14:08                             ` Adam Kropelin
     [not found]                           ` <46189FE3.6050206@gmail.com>
2007-04-09  1:54                             ` [linux-usb-devel] HID bus prototype - 20070408 Li Yu
2007-04-10  9:40                             ` Jiri Kosina
2007-04-10 11:00                               ` [linux-usb-devel] " Li Yu
2007-04-05  1:25                     ` [linux-usb-devel] [RFC] HID bus design overview Li Yu
2007-04-05  3:09                       ` Dmitry Torokhov
2007-04-05  5:28                         ` Li Yu
2007-04-05  6:47                           ` Li Yu
2007-04-06  0:58                         ` Li Yu
2007-03-29  5:37         ` Li Yu
2007-03-29  9:24           ` Jiri Kosina
2007-04-02 12:19           ` Marcel Holtmann

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