On Fri, 14 Dec 2007, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:

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> > Actually (to put it frankly), I'm amazed that this exceptions list is 
> > compiled into the driver. I would have thought that such a list should 
> > at least be in a configuration file that an installed application can 
> > add or delete, if not something more sophisticated.
> Something more sophisticated will happen someday, this is what we have
> now.

There is also possibility (for quite a few releases already) to change the 
quirk list in runtime. See the 'quirk' parameter to the usbhid module.

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> > What will happen if the HID driver is fixed to allow arbitrary 
> > messages, and I want to switch back to using it rather than libusb ?

What exactly is the problem here? I didn't seem to catch the beginning of 
the thread (or it happened off the list I am subscribed to).

I will apply the patch to my tree, thanks.

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs
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