linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/2] hid: corsair: Driver simplification and new supported device

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Message-ID: <CAM4jgCp5yPeRXHukGBLKYXOJev2VbrW5H4dREb_u=AX9vER_Tg@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 24 Mar 2016 16:19:28 +0100
From:	Clément VUCHENER <clement.vuchener@...il.com>
To:	Jiri Kosina <jikos@...nel.org>
Cc:	Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@...hat.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-input <linux-input@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] hid: corsair: Driver simplification and new supported device

2016-03-24 15:30 GMT+01:00 Jiri Kosina <jikos@...nel.org>:
> On Wed, 23 Mar 2016, =?UTF-8?q?Cl=C3=A9ment=20Vuchener?= wrote:
>
>> So, I decided to move all USB related features in user-space (as far as
>> I know, I was the only user, but if someone is looking for a
>> replacement, I wrote a small tool available here:
>> https://github.com/cvuchener/corsair-usb-config). This simplification
>> only leaves the usage code remapping part and the driver no longer
>> depends on USB and LED subsystems. This should make the driver easier to
>> maintain or to add new supported devices.
>
> While you are performing this move, is there anything that's actually
> preventing you from doing the remapping from userspace as well?
>
> HID subsystem has for long time been providing the setkeycode() hook for
> remapping usages, and udev (well, more precisely, that s*****d thing) is
> actually shipping a lot of hw-specific remap data these days.

Thanks for the tip, is it possible to ignore some usages with this
method (done in the default case)?

>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Jiri Kosina
> SUSE Labs
>