Good day, Yoav,
On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Yoav Etsion wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Jan 2002, Greg KH wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 07:28:54PM +0200, Yoav Etsion wrote:
> > > I am writing a driver for the keyspan digital media remote. This device is
> > > based on the EZ-USB chip (2132SC). I just finished writing a firmware for
> > > that device, and need to download it from the driver (until now I used the
> > > ezusb driver which does so from command line).
> > > There is some code that do that in the usb/serial keyspan driver (and
> > > might be on other drivers as well).
> >
> > It's actually in the usbserial.c core code.
> >
> > How is your driver going to interact with userspace?
>
> The remote's keys can be mapped to either keyboard keys or mouse
> buttons/motion. I was thinking of identifying it to the kernel as a
> keyboard/mouse device through the input core interface, and use the procfs
> to let the user change the mappings. At a later stage a user level daemon
> can follow the X focus and change the mappings according to the
> application in the focus window.
> Any comment or suggestions on this scheme are quite welcome, though (the
> first problem was getting it to work).
How did the driver turn out? I have one of these on order and
would be happy to help write up some documentation for it if that's useful
to you.
Cheers,
- Bill
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