On Wed, 19 Nov 2008, Rafi Rubin wrote:

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> >> Also, if you do prefer using driver data like that, is the probe 
> >> function necessary to make it work?
> > Probe function is necesary, you need to parse the report descriptor 
> > (hid_parse()), activate the hardware (hid_hw_start()), etc.
> Just to confirm then, its not necessary if I'm not checking the driver 
> data for the quirk?

Correct; if you don't need to do anything special in the _probe function, 
the HID core will do everything necessary (descriptor parsing, 
low-level hardware initialization) for you.

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs
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