On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 03:07:29PM +0800, Li Yu wrote: > Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > > > No, please don't do that. As soon as there is a special driver written > > for a device that device's VID/PID should be added to generic HID > > blacklist. This way udev will load the proper driver right away and > > there will not be any flip-flopping of input devices. > > > Hi, I do not think that using blacklist in base driver for this purpose > is good idea. If so, we need modify source when each new HID device > driver come, that's so ugly. I think the blacklist only should be used > for those really broken/buggy hardware, not for these normal hardware > with extended feature. > > Er, I also want to know what are drawbacks of "flip-flopping" ?
You have to create some kind of userspace program to disconnect the device from the hid driver, and bind it to the new driver, for every new device/driver that comes along. Yes, you can do this, but the blacklist is simpler and easier. thanks, greg k-h - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
