On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 11:41:28AM -0600, Rick L. Vinyard, Jr. wrote: > Alan Cox wrote: > > On Tue, 18 Aug 2009 09:41:56 -0600 > > "Rick L. Vinyard, Jr." <rvinyard@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > >> Greg KH wrote: > >> > On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 08:55:29AM -0600, Rick L. Vinyard, Jr. wrote: > >> > What are you using the binary sysfs attribute for? It should ONLY be > >> > used as a pass-through to and from hardware, with no interpretation by > >> > the kernel at all. > >> > >> It's for the Logitech G13's game panel image (a simple binary bitmap of > >> the pixels). > >> > >> It doesn't do any interpretation... just a few checks on the magic > >> number > >> and size. > > > > If its a bitmap image why not register the device as a framebuffer ? > > > > Would that preclude it also being registered as a HID? The primary purpose > of the device is to function as a keypad input. Is the framebuffer a different USB interface? Or are they all controlled through the same one? thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
