Hi, how did you manage to find an 8 year old copy?
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/libfprint/libfprint Benjamin On Tue, 2024-03-26 at 08:21 +0000, Andy Doddington wrote: > > > > > > Hi, > > Thanks for that. The documentation that you refer to looks like it > was generated directly from code (Doxygen?) with very little > explanation of the context or lifecycle etc. You refer to the actual > driver code as providing useful example(s), but where is this code? > I've looked at what I believe is the Git repo > (https://github.com/keyme/libfprint), but can't locate the drivers. > > It's a shame that fprint looks like so many other topics (e.g. > printf). Reminds me of the time when I needed to get details of the > Hilton in Paris ;-) > > With apologies for being dense... > > > > Kind Regards, > > Andy Doddington > > > fprint@lists.freedesktop.org wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > Send fprint mailing list submissions to > > fprint@lists.freedesktop.org > > > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > > https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/fprint > > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > > fprint-requ...@lists.freedesktop.org > > > > You can reach the person managing the list at > > fprint-ow...@lists.freedesktop.org > > > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > > than "Re: Contents of fprint digest..." > > > > > > Today's Topics: > > > > 1. Re: How to write an fprint driver? Plus examples if possible? > > (Benjamin Berg) > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > > --- > > > > Message: 1 > > Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2024 09:33:14 +0100 > > From: Benjamin Berg <benja...@sipsolutions.net> > > To: Andy Doddington <a...@doddington.net>, > > "fprint@lists.freedesktop.org" > > <fprint@lists.freedesktop.org> > > Subject: Re: How to write an fprint driver? Plus examples if > > possible? > > Message-ID: > > > > <0d420e06adc9d8b6ef78235b8be469f7601cfc87.ca...@sipsolutions.net> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > > > On Sat, 2024-03-23 at 18:42 +0000, Andy Doddington wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Dear All, > > > > I note from the documentation > > > > at? > > > > https://fprint.freedesktop.org/libfprint-dev/intro.html?that: > > > > "This documentation is not aimed at developers wishing to > > > > develop > > > > and?, contribute fingerprint device drivers to libfprint". > > > > Haha, I didn't know that string existed. That is not true anymore ? > > > > I mean, look at?https://fprint.freedesktop.org/libfprint-dev/?there > > is > > an entire section on "Writing Drivers", not sure why you got stuck > > on > > the Introduction which is probably still there from libfprint 0.x > > times > > ;-) > > > > I think these days most of the internal API surface is > > documentation. > > Likely not perfect, but it should be a quite good overall. So, take > > a > > look at it, but also be willing to accept that there might be some > > mistakes or gaps in the documentation. In the same way as the > > sentence > > you quoted is definitely not true anymore.?:-) > > > > > > Given that, could you please direct me to the documentation > > > > that > > > > *is* meant to server this purpose - ideally with some example > > > > code? > > > > I have just bought a laptop that does not provide a Linux- > > > > compatible fingerprint reader, even though it has one that is > > > > used > > > > by Windows 11 (sigh...).? > > > > Please refer to the existing drivers. There is no point in creating > > an > > example. Take a look at a few different and go from there. To > > start, > > figure out if you have a match-on-host or match-on-chip device and > > try > > to find a similar driver from there. > > > > Benjamin > > > > > > > > > > Clearly, this is not a promise on my part, but it might be > > > > worth a > > > > try - just for the fun of it. > > > > > > > > Kind Regards, > > > > > > > > > > > > ? ? ? ? ?Andy Doddington > > > > > > > > -------------- next part -------------- > > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > > URL: > > <https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/fprint/attachments/20240325 > > /454f6bf2/attachment-0001.htm> > > > > ------------------------------ > > > > Subject: Digest Footer > > > > _______________________________________________ > > fprint mailing list > > fprint@lists.freedesktop.org > > https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/fprint > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > > > End of fprint Digest, Vol 119, Issue 5 > > **************************************
