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Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 07:01:02 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/21] HID over GATT plugin
From: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@googlemail.com>
To: Pavan Savoy <pavan_savoy@sify.com>
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Hi Pavan

On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 3:49 AM, Pavan Savoy <pavan_savoy@sify.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 12:57 AM, David Herrmann
> <dh.herrmann@googlemail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Pavan
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 12:08 AM, Pavan Savoy <pavan_savoy@sify.com> wrote:
>>> Johan, Joao,
>>>
>>> Why wasn't uinput sub-system used ?
>>> May be there was a discussion regarding this on list & I missed it ?
>>
>> Yes, there was a discussion on linux-bluetooth and linux-input. If we
>> use uinput then we need a user-space HID parser. That would mean
>> duplicating a lot of kernel HID code.
>>
>>> why invent uHID ? or the project previously existed ?
>>
>> What project do you mean here? I don't know any predecessor of uHID.
>> Btw. uhid is already in Jiri's tree and scheduled for 3.6.
>
> Thanks David, I've realized that now..
> No, I was just wondering if uHID was done for hoG only ?

Yes, but it is not limited to HoG. Furthermore, we also planned on
moving HIDP to user-space (using uHID), too.

Regards
David