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From: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
To: "\"J. Pablo Fernández\"" <pupeno@pupeno.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Making a USB driver
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 00:16:23 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <479527C7.5000909@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200801212313.17703.pupeno@pupeno.com>

On 01/22/2008 12:13 AM, J. Pablo Fernández wrote:
> On Monday 21 January 2008 22:00:31 Jiri Slaby wrote:
>> On 01/21/2008 09:11 PM, J. Pablo Fernández wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I'm interested in making a driver for the Kinesis Savant Elite
>>> Programable USB Foot Switches[1].
>> [1]+1 says
>> Linux, Sun and other Non Windows Platforms
>> · Requires available USB port. Uses generic drivers provided by the
>> operating system. Due to the heterogeneity in these platforms, we cannot
>> guarantee compatibility with these systems. However, if your system can use
>> any USB mouse and keyboard, it will probably work with a Savant or Savant
>> Elite foot switch.
>>
>> I guess it's ordinary input device without any special driver needs.
> 
> It sends ordinary mouse and keyboard commands, but you need a driver to 
> program it what commands to send, and that's the part I want to cover: " it 
> can be easily reprogrammed on a Windows [and only Windows] PC to perform any 
> keyboard action or key combination."

But you didn't even mention that. Then try to search for usb ids in the tree and 
also in google.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-01-21 23:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-21 20:11 Making a USB driver J. Pablo Fernández
2008-01-21 22:00 ` Jiri Slaby
2008-01-21 23:13   ` J. Pablo Fernández
2008-01-21 23:16     ` Jiri Slaby [this message]
2008-01-22  9:03       ` J. Pablo Fernández
2008-01-22  9:19         ` Jiri Slaby
2008-01-22 11:49           ` J. Pablo Fernández
2008-01-22 12:31             ` Jiri Slaby

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