Package: kernel-source-2.6.8
Version: 2.6.8-5
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
Hi,
the USB devices called "IO-Warriors" from the German manufacturer
"Code Mercenaries" register themselves as HID devices but they offer
more functions than regular HID devices.
To use these extended functions the manufacturer offers a kernel
module (source as well as binaries), which requires modifications
in hid-core.c that make the standard usbhid kernel module ignores
these devices as HID devices.
The attached patch against the current kernel-source-2.6.8 package's
hid-core.c provides these modifications by adding the IO-Warrior
devices to the blacklist in hid-core.c
I am strongly convinced that this patch is licenced under the GPL since
the manufacturer freely distributes a modified version of Linux 2.6.4's
hid-core.c which differs from the original version only by the
modifications in the patch and thus still contains the original license
banner:
/*
* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
* under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free
* Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option)
* any later version.
*/
You may check it yourself in the Linux SDK for the IO-Warroir devices
which is freely available at:
http://www.codemercs.de/Downloads/Linux26.zip
Please consider the patch for inclusion in the next Debian kernel release.
It is trivial fix that does not hurt people not using IO-Warriors, and
it saves users, who need the special IOWarrior module, the necessity to
patch a standard kernel module.
I have also reported the bug upstream and hope it will make it into one
of the next upstream versions.
TIA
Peter
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.7-1-k7
Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Versions of packages kernel-source-2.6.8 depends on:
ii binutils 2.14.90.0.7-8 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii bzip2 1.0.2-1 A high-quality block-sorting file
ii coreutils [fileutils] 5.2.1-2 The GNU core utilities
ii fileutils 5.2.1-2 The GNU file management utilities
-- no debconf information
--- hid-core.c 2004-08-14 07:37:14.000000000 +0200
+++ hid-core.c 2004-09-15 17:34:43.000000000 +0200
@@ -1439,6 +1439,12 @@
#define USB_DEVICE_ID_1_PHIDGETSERVO_20 0x8101
#define USB_DEVICE_ID_4_PHIDGETSERVO_20 0x8104
+#define USB_VENDOR_ID_CODEMERCS 0x07c0
+#define USB_DEVICE_ID_CODEMERCS_IOW40 0x1500
+#define USB_DEVICE_ID_CODEMERCS_IOW24 0x1501
+#define USB_DEVICE_ID_CODEMERCS_IOW48 0x1502
+#define USB_DEVICE_ID_CODEMERCS_IOW28 0x1503
+
static struct hid_blacklist {
__u16 idVendor;
__u16 idProduct;
@@ -1521,6 +1527,11 @@
{ USB_VENDOR_ID_SAITEK, USB_DEVICE_ID_SAITEK_RUMBLEPAD, HID_QUIRK_BADPAD },
{ USB_VENDOR_ID_TOPMAX, USB_DEVICE_ID_TOPMAX_COBRAPAD, HID_QUIRK_BADPAD },
+ { USB_VENDOR_ID_CODEMERCS, USB_DEVICE_ID_CODEMERCS_IOW40, HID_QUIRK_IGNORE },
+ { USB_VENDOR_ID_CODEMERCS, USB_DEVICE_ID_CODEMERCS_IOW24, HID_QUIRK_IGNORE },
+ { USB_VENDOR_ID_CODEMERCS, USB_DEVICE_ID_CODEMERCS_IOW48, HID_QUIRK_IGNORE },
+ { USB_VENDOR_ID_CODEMERCS, USB_DEVICE_ID_CODEMERCS_IOW28, HID_QUIRK_IGNORE },
+
{ 0, 0 }
};
