I'm not sure if I have as it's mostly been guesswork from code with minimal comments. Is this line doing that? input_register_device(l3usbmat->dev); Thanks for your help. Cheers, Alan. On 7/29/06, Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 07:48:34PM +0100, Alan Jones wrote: > Hi All, > > I've attempted to write a driver for the logic3 usb dance mat. > > It "works" without a driver, but appears as a keyboard (though no > event node - at least with the setup I've got). And the directions > function as > Q Up E > Left S Right > Z Down C > > As well as an enter and escape up the top - predictably mapped. > > So my attempt was to fuse the xpad driver with the usbhid driver to > form some freakish combination where I could remap those keys to > buttons. The attempt lies here http://www.binaryiris.com/l3usbmat.c > > The first problem I had was that the mat was still recognized as a > keyboard - so I added it's details to hid-core.c in the blacklist to > prevent it from using the usbhid driver. However while that stopped it > and my module loads ok - it doesn't create any dev nodes and I'm > completely out of ideas. You need to register with the input subsystem, probably as a joystick device in order for this to be exposed to userspace properly. Have you tried that? thanks, greg k-h
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