On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 04:42:14AM +0930, Peter Hutterer wrote: > My understanding of the spec is that it is merely a hint what the device is. > As you say, this may only be useful for a few things but I don't believe that > it should serve to expose which driver is running. > > In theory, any device-specific modifications should respone with appropriate > error codes if the modification cannot be performed. Think of DeviceControls, > they both provide appropriate errors if you're trying to change on that isn't > there. Furthermore, there are quite a few settings that are provided by > multiple drivers anyway.
Sure, but we can glean quite a bit of information from the hardware manufacturer and HID capability tables. :) Cheers, Daniel
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