On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 10:03:55PM +0800, Xiaofan Chen wrote: > On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 9:35 PM, Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> It would be nice that usbutils to be changed to automatically > >> detach and attach the kernel HID driver for HID descriptor dumping. > > > > It needs root permissions to accomplish this, so it's not something that > > I can add to usbutils directly. > > > > But if you do not detach the kernel hid driver, even you run > lsusb as root it will not be able to dump the hid descriptors. > To retach the driver back, then you gain the mouse functionality back. Agreed, it's just that detaching and attaching requires root permissions. > As for if it is good or not to have a udev rule to enable the access of > mouse/keyboard for normal users, that is another story. For other > HID device, probably it is not too bad. Problem is, it's hard to determine which device is "not too bad" :) I think it's such a minor issue that it's not really worth it, don't you? 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
