Hello everyone,
From my thread on the libusb mailing list
(http://www.nabble.com/Does-libusb-1.0-get-it%27s-devices-stolen-by-the-OS%27s-native-driver--td25367199.html),
I came to understand that the linux version of the HID driver is unable
to send data to the device. From what I read on the
HID spec (http://www.usb.org/developers/devclass_docs/HID1_11.pdf) it
says that a report can define input and output (section 6.2.2.5, page
29). Is this correct, that the linux HID driver only partially
implements the HID spec and that the driver won't let me send arbitrary
(non-keyboard led on/off) data to a HID device? If so, from what I
understand, I have two choices :
1) write a kernel driver for my device (which is why I made it to be HID
compliant in the first place, to not have to write a driver for linux,
mac & windows)
2) use a userland lib like libusb/libhid and have to deal with the
kernel's HID driver claiming the device
Are there any other choices? Did I miss something?
Thank you,
Gabriel
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