Am Mittwoch, 31. Januar 2007 15:12 schrieb Jiri Kosina:
> On Wed, 31 Jan 2007, Oliver Neukum wrote:
>
> > Yes, it is broken. Hiddev allows multiple openings of the same device.
> > You cannot just mix IO requests of different readers. You are allowing a
> > second process to delay IO completion of the first process.
>
> It is questionable whether this is worth fixing, as hiddev has a very few
> real-world users (acupsd, nut, anything else?) - much more userland
probably not a high priority - I'll have a go at it once autosuspend
works
> applications willing to fiddle with HID use libhid instead, for various
> reasons.
>
> I have recently started writing a code of hidraw, which should provide a
> real raw access to HID data (without parsing, as hiddev does), as this
> seems to be what userland applications want (and that's why they are not
> using hiddev - they want really raw HID events, not the parsed ones that
> hiddev gives them). But thanks for pinpointing this, I will solve it
> differently in hidraw.
Good.
Regards
Oliver
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