On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 07:35:58PM +0200, Marian Beermann wrote: > Hi, > > I have here a "Microsoft Sidewinder Strategic Commander". It's > basically a fancy joystick (two axis plus rotation and a dozen or so > buttons), but it's not HID compliant, i.e. I can only use it via > hidraw. > I already elaborated the "protocol" that it uses ( > https://gist.github.com/3131917 ) and found out, that > drivers/hid/hid-microsoft.c is probably the proper location for > this. > What have I done so far? I defined the product ID in > drivers/hid/hid-ids.h (USB_DEVICE_ID_SIDEWINDER_SC) and added an > entry to the id_table. Now I don't really now any further... my > experience in writing Windows device drivers doesn't really help > here :-) > > So here go my questions: > -The events intercepted by hidraw and written to /dev/hidrawX are > sent to the hid_driver.raw_event function, I guess? > -How do I tell the input subsystem what properties this device has? > I guess I need to do something in hid_driver.probe ...? Try asking this on the linux-input mailing list, the developers there can help you out better than we can. 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
