On Tue, 14 May 2002 17:55, Jens Kilian wrote:
> As far as I can see, the only way to create an HID compliant report
> descriptor for such a device is to use the "Ordinal" usage page to specify
> 9 instances of a "Dial" control.  Unfortunately, the Linux USB/input
> drivers don't support the Ordinal page at the moment.  I therefore propose
> to add support for this page to the hid-input driver and to somehow extend
> the /dev/input... driver to make use of this information.
I think that this is a key issue. Exactly what do you plan to do with this 
device in userspace? If you will always need a special userspace driver 
anyway, then the easiest way to handle this device might be to use hiddev.

Brad
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