Re: New In USB : Need to make a device as Pointing type device

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On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 06:11:58PM +0200, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Apr 2010, suman wrote:
> 
> > I am new to USB Stack, and not very sure about the gadget drivers in 
> > Linux
> > 
> > I want to make a linux device act as a pointing device, so that when i 
> > connect to the windows system, it detects it as pointing device as like 
> > a USB mouse.
> > 
> > I will be great full if you can tell me any where in kernel where i can 
> > look in for achieving the same.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> you definitely can use gadgetfs to implemet HID gadget in userspace. I 
> vaguely recall someone trying to do this a few years ago, but I don't know 
> how it ended up.

A HID gadget framework has been posted to the linux-usb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
mailing list a few times in the past few weeks, and it will be going
into the next kernel release, so that is what you might want to use
here.

thanks,

greg k-h
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