On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 07:43:24PM -0400, Xiaofan Chen wrote: > On 7/18/07, Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 04:28:29PM -0400, Xiaofan Chen wrote: > > > One more thing, ldusb supports some HID device. How does it prevent > > > the kernel USBHID driver from claiming it? > > > > The usb hid driver has a very large blacklist of devices that are not > > really HID devices. The ones claimed by this driver are in that list. > > > > I see. Thanks. > > Just wondering what is the policy of accepting a > device into the HID blacklist? Right now we need to detach the > kernel usbhid driver in various libusb based application for the > PICkit 1 and PICKit 2 USB Programmers. > > #define USB_VENDOR_ID_MICROCHIP 0x04d8 > #define USB_DEVICE_ID_PICKIT1 0x0032 > #define USB_DEVICE_ID_PICKIT2 0x0033 > > So to blacklist PICKit 1 and 2 is not necessary but might help > to reduce support and patches to the old application. ;-)
If they are not really hid devices and you don't want the hid driver to bind to them, we will gladly add them to the blacklist. Just send a patch to the hid maintainer. thanks, greg k-h ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel
