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Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 14:01:51 +0200
From: Henrik Rydberg <rydberg@euromail.se>
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To: Rafi Rubin <rafi@seas.upenn.edu>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] identify firmware version
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On 08/26/2010 06:54 AM, Rafi Rubin wrote:

> This adds firmware version polling to the end of probe and reports the
> version both in the raw form and proccessed to match the formatting used
> by ntrig in windows.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rafi Rubin <rafi@seas.upenn.edu>


The version field of the input_id struct is a 16-bit number that can be used to
code device-specific version information, and is retrievable via EVIOCGID.
Perhaps one could code the firmware version in there.

Henrik
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