On Sun, Feb 09, 2014 at 01:55:13PM +0100, Christian Vogel wrote:
> {please reply directly to me, I'm not subscribed to linux-usb}
>
> Hi Guys and Girls,
>
> this patch adds support for the "Webmail Notifier" (USB powered LED for
> signaling new emails) made by Riso Kagaku Corp. which displays 7 distinct
> colors (http://instagram.com/p/dxZNl_nEe5).
>
> It extends the usbled.c driver initially written by Greg Kroah-Hartman.
>
> Even though the device only supports binary R/G/B values, I tried to
> keep the user-interface stable (echo > /sys/.../red, green and blue).
>
> I had sent it to Greg personally last August, but there was a warning
> and he rightfully threw it out again, so now I had time to clean that up.
>
> Some additional explanations can be found in the README alongside
> the github out-of-tree version: https://github.com/vogelchr/led-notify-module/
>
> Chris
>
> >From a25893347c71b5569951f66307f5c26ebe18d4f7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Christian Vogel <vogelchr@xxxxxxxx>
> Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2013 22:11:35 +0200
> Subject: [PATCH] usb/misc/usbled: Add Riso Kagaku Corp. Webmail Notifier
I can't take patches as an attachment, please just send them as-is using
git send-email.
> Add support for the "Webmail Notifier" (USB powered LED for signaling
> new emails) made by Riso Kagaku Corp. which displays 7 distinct colors.
>
> USB Protocol initially reverse engineered by
> https://code.google.com/p/usbmailnotifier/.
>
> The device will present itself as a USB HID, but will annoy the kernel
> with broken HID reports if you use it via echo >/dev/hidraw.
> Hence you'll have to manually unbind usbhid to make usbled take ownership.
Please add an entry to the hid module to blacklist this device so you
don't have to unbind anything "manually".
Care to make that fix and send this again, in a format I can apply it
in?
thanks,
greg k-h
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