On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 01:54:08PM +0100, luca ellero wrote: > Hi everybody, > I'm writing a driver that use a USB mouse as a minimal keyboard (binding > mouse buttons to some useful keys: Enter, Tab, ESC or others). > The problem is the USB mouse driver (integrated into the kernel) takes over > the mouse device and so my driver is never bind to it. > Now, I know how to blacklist a driver if it was a module, but I wonder if > there is some easy way to do the same with a "compiled in" driver without > recompiling the kernel.
The hid driver has a quirks file you can write to which will keep it from binding to your device. You can also unbind a driver from a device by hand through the 'unbind' file in sysfs in the driver's directory. In the end, just send a patch to the hid maintainer to add your device to the quirk list so it doesn't bind to it so you don't have to do this. good luck, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to [email protected] Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
