Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 06 Mar 2007 08:01:50 +0100 | | From | Robert Marquardt <> | | Subject | Re: [linux-usb-devel] [DOC] The documentation for HID Simple Driver Interface 0.5.0 |
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Jiri Kosina wrote:
> In addition to that, as I stated in some previous e-mail, I am currently > working on new 'hidraw' interface, which will provide more flexibility to > userland applications willing to operate on raw HID data, than they > currently have with hiddev.
I do not know too much about the Linux innards, but my opinion is that the HID API to userland should be the bare reports. Windows is handling it that way for a good reason. Far too many HID devices have either non-informative descriptors (declaring a byte array report) or declaring a report which does not match the data contained. Parsing a report is definitely a userland job.
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