Re: HID bus

From: Jiri Kosina
Date: Mon Apr 21 2008 - 05:26:07 EST


On Sun, 20 Apr 2008, Anssi Hannula wrote:

> Why not just do something like
>
> #define HID_DEVICE(vend, dev) \
> .match_flags = USB_DEVICE_ID_MATCH_DEVICE | \
> USB_DEVICE_ID_MATCH_INT_CLASS, \
> .idVendor = (vend), \
> .idProduct = (prod), \
> .bInterfaceClass = USB_INTERFACE_CLASS_HID
> (see linux/usb.h)
>
> and use USB hotplugging?
> Or do we plan to match against something else as well, such as hid
> reports or something?

No, we plan to do matching based solely on VID/PID. The report-specific
stuff is then handled between the specific driver and HID generic code.

Thanks,

--
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs

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