Re: Help newbie second usb mouse

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Am Dienstag, den 20.04.2010, 06:47 -0700 schrieb Greg KH:
> On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 03:37:41PM +0200, Karin Pavjlik wrote:
> > Im' a newbie, trying to program my first driver. I'll try to make an
> > additional driver for the second USB mouse plugged into my laptop
> > (genius netscroll+). 
> 
> Hm, why?  Does the in-kernel driver not already work for you?

No. just for learning, I have to make a project.

> How do I disable the second mouse from behiving like a
> > mouse?
> Unbind it from userspace through sysfs if you really want to do this.
> Or make the usbfs ioctl call to disable it.  Either will work.

Cool.

> > b) Where is the current usb mouse driver source code for this? 
> usbhid.

> > c) any tips? I'm reading the oreilly book. 
> What exactly are you trying to do?  There are already drivers for your
> device written (one very complete, one tiny) in the kernel tree, so
> rewriting them, while fun, might not be needed :)

Just trying to understand a little bit of USB, I thought starting with
something simple as a mouse, from zero, could be nice. usbhid seems
*BIG*.

Thanks a lot. 

Best regards.
-- 
Karin Pavjlik <karin.pavjlik@xxxxxxxxx>

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