Re: Blacklisting in-kernel drivers

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On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 01:54:08PM +0100, luca ellero wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> I'm writing a driver that use a USB mouse as a minimal keyboard (binding 
> mouse buttons to some useful keys: Enter, Tab, ESC or others).
> The problem is the USB mouse driver (integrated into the kernel) takes over 
> the mouse device and so my driver is never bind to it.
> Now, I know how to blacklist a driver if it was a module, but I wonder if 
> there is some easy way to do the same with a "compiled in" driver without 
> recompiling the kernel.

The hid driver has a quirks file you can write to which will keep it
from binding to your device.

You can also unbind a driver from a device by hand through the 'unbind'
file in sysfs in the driver's directory.

In the end, just send a patch to the hid maintainer to add your device
to the quirk list so it doesn't bind to it so you don't have to do this.

good luck,

greg k-h

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