On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 9:19 PM, Xiaofan Chen <xiaof...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 7:39 AM, Nathan Hjelm <hje...@me.com> wrote: >> Since I expect a majority of libusb's users are looking for portability >> so all of HID device users should be directed to use hidapi. > > Actually hidapi can benefit from the libusb's HID backend as well. > You can see that HIDAPI has a libusb-1.0 API based backend. > https://github.com/signal11/hidapi/tree/master/libusb > > Right now it is only for Linux and FreeBSD. But if there is > a native HID backend for libusbx under Mac OS X, the above > libusb backend for HIDAPI can be extended to Mac OS X as well. > > You may ask why that could be beneficial? The native HID backend > (HIDAPI under Mac OS X and Windows, and the hidraw backend > for Linux even though hidraw is not the default for HIDAPI Linux) > may have the side benefits of supporting Bluetooth. But in the future > libusbx will have new features like Hotplug and Cross-platform event > handling, that could actually benefit HIDAPI a lot provided libusbx > supports HID on the platforms.
BTW, it seems to me this uhid may be more suitable for HIDAPI than hidraw in the future as the native backend. http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.input/25430 It sounds a bit like the native HID API under Windows. -- Xiaofan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ libusbx-devel mailing list libusbx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/libusbx-devel
