> This patch adds a new usb-misc driver for the fingerprint sensor > that can be found in the Siemens ID Mouse USB. 'cat /dev/idmouseX' > yields a 225x288 greyscale PNM with the fingerprint information. > > It may be considered controversial that it outputs a PNM instead > of raw data, but I hold the opinion that the 15 bytes of header, > "P5 225 288 256 ", do not do any harm and allow the device to be > used in shell scripts or similar, too. > > The setup packets are not described further, simply because I don't > know anything about them myself. We captured them under Windows > using SnoopyPro. Rats, I forgot one thing: the driver still has an arbitrarily chosen minor number. But AFAIK, you can assign it one?
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