linux-kernel - RE: [PATCH] hid: usbhid: New hid quirks for Panasonic Elite Panaboard T-780 and T-880

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Date:	Wed, 3 Nov 2010 09:28:14 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>
To:	Anton Chikin <Anton.Chikin@...aart.com>
Cc:	"chatty@...c.fr" <chatty@...c.fr>,
	"spbnick@...il.com" <spbnick@...il.com>,
	"anisse@...ier.eu" <anisse@...ier.eu>,
	"cascardo@...oscopio.com" <cascardo@...oscopio.com>,
	"linux-input@...r.kernel.org" <linux-input@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-usb@...r.kernel.org" <linux-usb@...r.kernel.org>,
	Gregory Burmistrov <grig@...aart.com>,
	Paul Osborn <Paul.Osborn@...panasonic.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH] hid: usbhid: New hid quirks for Panasonic Elite Panaboard
 T-780 and T-880

On Tue, 2 Nov 2010, Anton Chikin wrote:

> Thank you for your feedback.
> 
> With the generic hid driver device is working in mouse-mode, turning it 
> into the huge touchscreen, which is completely useless for the end-user.

Still, at least some very basic and limited/crippled functionality is 
there. So my preferred mode of operation now would be having the device 
being claimed by generic driver and wait for your proper full-fledged 
driver.

> On some Linux systems hid driver is loaded from init.rd image, so we 
> can't feed our quirks to it while boot process and we can't rebuild 
> init.rd image on the user's machine because some Linux distributives 
> doesn't have special tools preinstalled.
> 
> We are going to submit our driver to the Linux kernel quickly, so 
> everyone can improve it.

That would be great, I'll be happy to review and merge it. Are you 
planning to have it as a driver on HID bus, or completely separate USB 
driver?

Thanks,

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs, Novell Inc.
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