I agree with edge. I don't see much point in a kernel driver as it's USB device and it's already recognized by the HAL. Perhaps a better USB HAL driver, but a kernel driver seems like overkill and dangerous.
Chris. Brian Edginton wrote: > On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 7:03 AM, Martin Owens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>>> I think it is best to start at the lowest level we can, and we may >>>> run into some roadblocks along the way. Especially the probe messages >>>> that are not well understood yet. >>>> >> Did you ever work out how to identify a given BlackBerry device? having >> good identification for devices is key if you want to move functionality >> up into userspace. >> >> If you can create a black berry information dobry that's used by dbi >> and/or hal to populate stuff ready for userland. _that_ would be useful. >> >> So long as hardware identification, power management (you know) and low >> level interfaces are kernel bound. The user space can excel then at >> cooking up some cool stuff. >> > > Since 2.6 linux has started to rely heavily on hal and a quick glance > at it on an F8 (2.6.21) box shows that hal notices a blackberry as > both a storage device and a usb device. And once hal has noticed a > device it's very easy to get whatever information there is out. I > haven't been paying a lot of attention to what information barry > wants, but I'll go back and look so we can verify that hal sees what > we want it to see. > > -edge > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge > Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes > Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world > http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ > _______________________________________________ > Barry-devel mailing list > Barry-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/barry-devel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Barry-devel mailing list Barry-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/barry-devel
