Re: Extend device driver?

On Sat, Sep 10, 2016 at 04:41:34PM +0200, Pol Eyschen wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I want to implement some custom functions of my mouse (Madcatz RAT5) in > Linux, e.g custom DPI-values. As this requires writing over USB to the > firmware of the mouse I was thinking of writing a module to

Extend device driver?

Hi everyone, I want to implement some custom functions of my mouse (Madcatz RAT5) in Linux, e.g custom DPI-values. As this requires writing over USB to the firmware of the mouse I was thinking of writing a module to accomplish this. However I don't want to reimplement a whole mouse-driver,so I

Re: Extend device driver?

You may want to look at http://www.signal11.us/oss/hidapi/ too, it has nice interface to HID device and supports libusb and hidraw backends (y) Regards, 2016-09-10 12:14 GMT-03:00 Greg KH : > On Sat, Sep 10, 2016 at 04:41:34PM +0200, Pol Eyschen wrote: >> Hi everyone, >> >> I

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Re: memblock_reserve or memblock_remove to reserve a page

Hi, I want to reserve a physical memory page with a fixed PFN. I do not want this page to be used by anyone else. I am calling memblock_reserve() to supposedly reserve the page. I am writing some content into this page. What I see is that during some runs the content of this page is modified