Re: Xpad Driver Replacement

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Hi

On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 4:27 AM, Zachary Lund <admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 12/08/13 00:18, Zachary Lund wrote:
>>
>> Secondly, the Xbox 360 controllers claim to be HID compliant... this is
>> not an HID driver. That's because the report descriptor is missing and I,
>> unfortunately, do not know what to do about that. Some drivers like XBCD and
>> the driver found at tattiebogle.net both provide their own report descriptor
>> and work from there. While I'd like to do the same eventually, it will take
>> me longer than a week to do that as I'd have to educate myself on HID and
>> figure out what to do about the missing descriptors.
>
> I've run into an instant road block. The controller claims bInterfaceClass
> to be 0xFF (Vendor-specific) so usbhid won't probe it. I didn't think it
> would be so difficult to work around that but I've spent the better part of
> today trying to figure out just that. usbhid is a usb_driver that has only
> one requirement to be probed: bInterfaceClass be 0x03. Unfortunately, the
> device fails this requirement.
>
> Does anyone know of a way around this mechanism? Or perhaps I should take a
> different approach?

Try adding it to:
  static const struct usb_device_id hid_usb_ids[]
in drivers/hid/usb-hid/hid-core.c
You should provide a fairly narrow match-line, though. You don't want
to match on all vendor-specific-class devices.

Cheers
David
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