On Mon, 2 Apr 2007, Li Yu wrote:

> Hi, I do not think that using blacklist in base driver for this purpose 
> is good idea. If so, we need modify source when each new HID device 
> driver come, that's so ugly. 

Hi Li,

well, the drivers are exceptions from the generic handling, so creating an 
exceptional rule (entry in hid_blacklist) for them is not that bad. OK, 
it's not the nicest thing on earth probably, but serves the purpose in 
current vendors-trying-to-break-hardware-in-the-most-original-way world 
quite well.

This is going to cause some headache to out-of-tree drivers. Oh well, do 
we care that much? 

In your scenario you'll still need a way how to unbind the device from the 
hid driver and bind it to the new specific device, won't you?. This could 
be done by a separate userspace program, but well ... I think just 
blacklisting the hardware is much cleaner, than needing to ship a separate 
userspace program along with the driver.

Thanks,

-- 
Jiri Kosina
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