From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965827AbXCFHHO (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Mar 2007 02:07:14 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965828AbXCFHHO (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Mar 2007 02:07:14 -0500 Received: from server225-han.de-nserver.de ([85.158.176.91]:41168 "EHLO server225-han.de-nserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965827AbXCFHHM (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Mar 2007 02:07:12 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 399 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Tue, 06 Mar 2007 02:07:12 EST Message-ID: <45ED11DE.4080304@codemercs.com> Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2007 08:01:50 +0100 From: Robert Marquardt User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (Windows/20070221) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jiri Kosina CC: Li Yu , Vincent Legoll , linux-usb-devel , Harold Sargeant , Greg Kroah Hartman , Dmitry Torokhov , LKML , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [linux-usb-devel] [DOC] The documentation for HID Simple Driver Interface 0.5.0 References: <200703051532096508636@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-User-Auth: Auth by marquardt@codemercs.com through 87.187.29.211 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. -- -------------------------------------- Code Mercenaries Hard- und Software GmbH Karl-Marx-Str. 147a 12529 Schönefeld OT Grossziethen Germany Tel: x49-3379-2050920 Fax: x49-3379-2050930 HRB 16007 Potsdam Geschäftsführer: Guido Körber, Christian Lucht