On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 21:04:59 +0800 Xiaofan Chen <xiaofanc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 8:54 PM, Alan Ott <alan@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Is that what you're asking for, or are you asking for something which will > > tell you which reports are _available_ on the device, and what their lengths > > are? There is currently no way to report which reports are _available_. As > > Jiri said, HIDRAW does not do any parsing of the report descriptor. All data > > is passed "raw" from the user application to the device. > > > > If you know what type of device you are talking to, then you shouldn't > > really need to parse the descriptor in software, because you'll know what > > the device supports, right? > > > > Sorry I do not know much about hidraw. However, if HIDraw is so > "raw", what are the benefits of HIDRAW compared to using libusb? > Then there is also libhid which is on top of libusb. > One of the advantages in the usb case is that you do not have to _detach_ the kernel driver bound to the device in order to set/get raw hid reports. With libusb this is needed. > -- > Xiaofan > Regards, Antonio -- Antonio Ospite http://ao2.it PGP public key ID: 0x4553B001 A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
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