Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760091AbXESIBR (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 May 2007 04:01:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752403AbXESIBG (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 May 2007 04:01:06 -0400 Received: from neopsis.com ([213.239.204.14]:49474 "EHLO matterhorn.dbservice.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754078AbXESIBF (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 May 2007 04:01:05 -0400 Message-ID: <464EB44D.2040802@dbservice.com> Date: Sat, 19 May 2007 10:24:45 +0200 From: Tomas Carnecky User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (X11/20070420) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jiri Kosina CC: Lee Revell , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: SideWinder GameVoice driver References: <464C5FAC.8060609@dbservice.com> <75b66ecd0705181520p5c306e6dm146ccb4792853acd@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Neopsis-MailScanner-Information: Neopsis MailScanner using ClamAV and Spaassassin X-Neopsis-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Neopsis-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-2.37, required 5, autolearn=spam, AWL 0.23, BAYES_00 -2.60) X-MailScanner-From: tom@dbservice.com Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1619 Lines: 36 Jiri Kosina wrote: > On Fri, 18 May 2007, Lee Revell wrote: > >>> Despite it's a Microsoft product, it's actually very nice and useful. A >>> little pad with a few buttons and connectors for a headset. It's an USB >>> device, but it doesn't represent itself as an input/HID device: >>> HID device not claimed by input or hiddev >> Is the audio part of the device USB audio class compliant? > > Seems like the device is a bit strange - it in fact, as far as my > understanding goes (see the previous posts in this thread), doesn't have > any noticeable USB audio capabilities at all - it is just a HID device > with a few buttons (plus additional audio connector, which only "forwards" > the sound to a real audio device). Exactly, it isn't a 'sound' device at all. It has a USB plug and plain old headset/microphone cables which have to be put into the soundcard. The pad itself has connectors for the headset/microphone, but those are simply forwarded to the soundcard (there's the 'mute' button which can be used to mute the microphone, and a volume wheel, but that's all it can do with the sound). > > So it's just a trivial HID device with probably a bit strange report > descriptor, it seems to me. It even has only one interface (the HID one). > Someone at Microsoft probably thought, Hey, there's this Telephony/Headset category, why not use that? tom - 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/