Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964919AbXAWM5a (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Jan 2007 07:57:30 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964872AbXAWM5a (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Jan 2007 07:57:30 -0500 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:54563 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964919AbXAWM53 (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Jan 2007 07:57:29 -0500 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Rolf Offermanns Subject: Re: How to use an usb interface than is claimed by HID? Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 13:57:11 +0100 Message-ID: References: <45B265E0.5020605@gmail.com> <200701212134.58646.uvsoft@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 62.8.134.2 User-Agent: KNode/0.10.4 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1175 Lines: 30 Ivan Ukhov wrote: >> .. which wouldn't help you either, supposing that you don't want to touch >> the kernel sources at all, because this function is unexported and >> static. >> >> So I think that there is no straightforward way, sorry. >> >> Is this a device that doesn't exist anywhere else than on your table? I >> still think that putting the code in kernel (if possible) and >> blacklisting the device on the hid_blacklist[] is the simplest way. >> >> The other possibility is writing the driver completely in userspace, >> using libhid/hiddev. Would that suit your needs? > > I'm afraid it wouldn't. > > Thank you very much. > There is another way. Have a look at this article: http://lwn.net/Articles/143397/ Maybe this is an option for you. -Rolf -- Rolf Offermanns SYSGO AG Tel.: +49-6136-9948-0 Am Pfaffenstein 14 Fax: +49-6136-9948-10 55270 Klein-Winternheim http://www.sysgo.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/