Hello, devices that have special drivers in the kernel are added to hid_core.c:hid_have_special_driver[] so that the hid-generic driver does not bind the device. Drivers not in the kernel have to rely on a mechanism of unbinding the device from hid-generic and binding it to the right driver with an udev rule or something. I realized that on some modern distributions (namely Ubuntu13.10 and Fedora19) this seems not to work anymore for my Roccat drivers. After rebinding the device to the target driver the /dev/input/event* devices show no output. In Ubuntu13.10 this problem can be bypassed by adding the target module to initrd, but not on Fedora19. While I'm further investigating this issue it doesn't look like a basic kernel problem, as the newer kernel versions work on older distros flawlessly. But I stumbled over the following idea which does not fix the problem, but be an alternative to rebinding: What about a HID_QUIRK_HAS_SPECIAL_DRIVER quirk that has the same functionality as an entry in hid_have_special_driver[]? In my eyes it looks like a suitable accommodation to the existing quirks NOGET and IGNORE. Mabe I'm overlooking something and a solution already exists? Also, I would be glad to hear any hints on the rebind issue. Thanks and have a nice day Stefan Achatz -- 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
