linux-kernel - Re: [linux-usb-devel] [DOC] The documentation for HID Simple Driver Interface 0.5.0

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0703060836360.10909@twin.jikos.cz>
Date:	Tue, 6 Mar 2007 08:37:38 +0100 (CET)
From:	Jiri Kosina <jikos@...os.cz>
To:	Robert Marquardt <marquardt@...emercs.com>
cc:	Li Yu <raise.sail@...il.com>,
	Vincent Legoll <vincentlegoll@...il.com>,
	linux-usb-devel <linux-usb-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net>,
	Harold Sargeant <harold-sargeant@...world.com>,
	Greg Kroah Hartman <greg@...ah.com>,
	Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [linux-usb-devel] [DOC] The documentation for HID Simple Driver
 Interface 0.5.0

On Tue, 6 Mar 2007, Robert Marquardt wrote:

> 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.

Which is exactly what the new hidraw interface is going to provide.

-- 
Jiri Kosina
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