Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757728AbZCRO3x (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Mar 2009 10:29:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755784AbZCRO3o (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Mar 2009 10:29:44 -0400 Received: from billgribble.com ([65.99.215.30]:59330 "EHLO mail.billgribble.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753791AbZCRO3n (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Mar 2009 10:29:43 -0400 Subject: Re: usbhid: Changes since 2.6.28 in quirk handling? From: Bill Gribble To: Jiri Kosina Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: References: <1236947942.9606.26.camel@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 10:29:07 -0400 Message-Id: <1237386547.4954.10.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.24.5 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-DSPAM-Result: Innocent X-DSPAM-Processed: Wed Mar 18 09:30:48 2009 X-DSPAM-Confidence: 1.0000 X-DSPAM-Probability: 0.0023 X-DSPAM-Signature: 49c1059813714004923371 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1003 Lines: 28 On Wed, 2009-03-18 at 15:14 +0100, Jiri Kosina wrote: > we have drivers (and even whole architectures) supported by the kernel, > which have less than 5 users in the world, that's not a big deal. Great to hear that! I will try to clean up my patches according to the guidelines and send them in. > Looking at your patch, the only thing you need is sending a special URB to > the device in order to make it operational, right? That's right. > Please look at hid-sony driver, which does exactly that for some of the > PS3 devices. > > You then only need to add your device to hid_blacklist[], so that generic > driver doesn't get bound to it and it'd be driven by your special driver. OK, thanks for the advice. I will do that. Bill Gribble -- 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/