Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > No, please don't do that. As soon as there is a special driver written > for a device that device's VID/PID should be added to generic HID > blacklist. This way udev will load the proper driver right away and > there will not be any flip-flopping of input devices. > 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. I think the blacklist only should be used for those really broken/buggy hardware, not for these normal hardware with extended feature.
Er, I also want to know what are drawbacks of "flip-flopping" ? > > >> When user A remove this shadow driver, the USB/base driver should resume >> work for this joystick, IOW, it should register back its input device again. >> >> > > Why would we want to revert to using generic HID's implementation if we > know that it is broken for that particular device??? > > Well, many devices just only can not play its full feature, not broken. so base driver still can work for us. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/