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

[Jiri Kosina]

On Tue, 6 Mar 2007, Robert Marquardt wrote:

> 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.

Which is exactly what the new hidraw interface is going to provide.

-- 
Jiri Kosina
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