On Mon, 17 Nov 2014 21:01:44 -0500 bri <bri@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 01:35:18PM +0100, Antonio Ospite wrote: > > I had tried doing something similar in the past (the parsing was just a > > sscanf): http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.bluez.kernel/5261 but then > > we deliberately decided against exposing specific sysfs interfaces for > > device/master_bdaddr, you can just use generic HID feature reports from > > userspace to get/set these, write a simple program reusing the code in > > the BlueZ sixaxis plugin, using the ioclts > > HIDIOCGFEATURE/HIDIOCSFEATURE, this way you don't depend on libusb. As > > an historical note, the BlueZ sixaxis plugin was one of the first user > > of these ioctls. > > ... > > > That said I still don't think the changes you are proposing are strictly > > necessary in the kernel driver, but let's see what the others have to > > say about that. > > On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 02:39:35PM -0500, Frank Praznik wrote: > > Agreed, I don't see a need for exposing this as a sysfs entry since it's > > easy enough to use hidraw and an ioctl call to set/get the master address. > > For this argument I would offer that "easy" is different for you or I > working on a development system than for a less versed person working > to personally customize an appliance that didn't come with a gcc package, > but probably did come with /bin/sh. > If you can upload a shell script to the target system you may as well upload a static binary; and if you can use a modified kernel you can compile _for_ the target even if not _on_ the target. And if you need help to write the program which uses the HID ioctls just ask :) Ciao, Antonio -- Antonio Ospite http://ao2.it 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? -- 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
