On lun, 2007-11-26 at 21:43 +1030, Ron wrote: > Hi Pascal, > > There is a less intrusive way to handle this for any reasonably modern > 2.6 kernel... see the check_driver script in the Debian package. > > It's called from udev when the device is plugged and if it is a wacom > tablet, it will repossess it from any other driver and bind it to the > wacom one. > > We had a more brutal hack that did this for 2.4 too, but this method > is I believe the recommended one now (or at least supported without > further kernel patching since about 2.6.13-ish). Yes this can be workarounded in userspace, but why having a blacklist in HID if the individual usbhid drivers still take the device ? And why having a driver to handle a device when a better one exists ? -- Pascal Terjan Ingénieur Conseil Mandriva (ex Mandrakesoft) Tel +33 (0) 1 40 41 17 51 - Fax +33 (0) 1 40 41 92 00 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-input" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
