Hi folks,
I take the opportunity of the previous discussion (USB scanner obsolescence) to relaunch the one about hidddev. On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 11:21:58AM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > ... > Can't you use xsane without the scanner kernel driver? I thought the > latest versions used libusb/usbfs to talk directly to the hardware. > Because of this, the USB scanner driver is marked to be removed from the > kernel sometime in the near future. I'm thinking about doing the same with hiddev as I'm facing new problems each times we solve one! Currently, MGE devices won't work fine with latest kernels (2.4 and 2.6). I've identified that config/report descriptors are queried another time at the end of HID enumeration, but the device doesn't have time to answer (about 1,5 sec, instead of the standard "5 sec" timeout). I've not found the cause after digging, so I've directly gone to the next step. So I've setup the libHID project [1] to allow this HID support, only used by UPSs at the moment (I've seen passing some comments about USB radio and other gadgets). But others complex HID devices are welcomed. My last problem is that I can't succeed in deactivating hiddev at runtime (I've tryed various form of "alias hiddev off" in modules.conf without success). This still cause nasty side effect to the device. So my question is: If we have userland HID support through libHID (in the same way as libusb), is hiddev still needed? I obviously don't talk about hid (core), joy/keyb/mouse which are still needed... Your feedback about all of that is welcomed. Arnaud [1] http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/libhid http://www.ghz.cc/~clepple/libHID/doc/html/index.html ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users
