On Mon, 2 Apr 2007, Li Yu wrote: > 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.
Hi Li, well, the drivers are exceptions from the generic handling, so creating an exceptional rule (entry in hid_blacklist) for them is not that bad. OK, it's not the nicest thing on earth probably, but serves the purpose in current vendors-trying-to-break-hardware-in-the-most-original-way world quite well. This is going to cause some headache to out-of-tree drivers. Oh well, do we care that much? In your scenario you'll still need a way how to unbind the device from the hid driver and bind it to the new specific device, won't you?. This could be done by a separate userspace program, but well ... I think just blacklisting the hardware is much cleaner, than needing to ship a separate userspace program along with the driver. Thanks, -- Jiri Kosina - 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/
