Re: [linux-usb-devel] [DOC] The documentation for HID Simple DriverInterface 0.5.0

[Robert Marquardt]

Jiri Kosina wrote:

> In addition to that, as I stated in some previous e-mail, I am currently 
> working on new 'hidraw' interface, which will provide more flexibility to 
> userland applications willing to operate on raw HID data, than they 
> currently have with hiddev.

I do not know too much about the Linux innards, but my opinion is that 
the HID API to userland should be the bare reports. Windows is handling 
it that way for a good reason. Far too many HID devices have either 
non-informative descriptors (declaring a byte array report) or declaring 
a report which does not match the data contained. Parsing a report is 
definitely a userland job.

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