At Wed, 18 Mar 2009 07:53:46 -0700 CentOS mailing list <centos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 1:24 PM, Chris Miller <centos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > I work with a USB device that is intercepted by the USB HID driver.
> > In order to stop this behavior, the device needs to be added to the
> > HID blacklist (hid-core.c) and a custom kernel needs to be compiled.
> >
> > If I create a CentOS specific patch, it appears I need to create the
> > patch against an already patched source tree (i.e. after running
> > rpmbuild -bp) because other patches exist that add items to the
> > blacklist that would break my diff patch. Seems like this would be a
> > never ending battle as new patches get added to new kernels.
> >
> > What's the correct way to get this device added to the kernel? Do I
> > submit my patch to the CentOS dev team, to the kernel.org folks, or
> > both? What's the timeline (if accepted) to actually seeing this in a
> > production kernel? On the CentOS kernel build how-to, the kABI fixes
> > won't make it into CentOS until 5.4, and 5.3 hasn't been released yet.
>
> CentOS will not make changes to the distro kernel because it aims to
> be 100% binary compatible (including bugs). However, it you submit
> the patch you have, it might be included in the centosplus kernel. I
> suggest you open a report at http://bugs.centos.org with a detailed
> description of the problem and upload your patch.
>
> Another thing you want to try is to open a bugzilla upstream. If the
> patch is incorporated in the upstream kernel, it will then be in the
> CentOS kernel.
>
> The kABI fix you mentioned is not a problem. It is just a note. You
> can still build custom kernels by following the instructions on the
> Wiki.
If the OP has written a libusb (user mode) driver for his device, he
does not really have to add the device to the usb core blacklist and
rebuild the kernel. Libusb has a call, usb_detach_kernel_driver_np,
that will detach the device from the kernel HID driver. I use this
call with the code I wrote for the Rail Driver device.
>
> Akemi
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