You may want to look at http://www.signal11.us/oss/hidapi/ too, it has nice interface to HID device and supports libusb and hidraw backends (y) Regards, 2016-09-10 12:14 GMT-03:00 Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx>: > On Sat, Sep 10, 2016 at 04:41:34PM +0200, Pol Eyschen wrote: >> Hi everyone, >> >> I want to implement some custom functions of my mouse (Madcatz RAT5) in >> Linux, e.g custom DPI-values. As this requires writing over USB to the >> firmware of the mouse I was thinking of writing a module to accomplish >> this. However I don't want to reimplement a whole mouse-driver,so I >> wanted to ask if there is a possibility of binding the device to 2 >> modules or having my module extend usbhid, so that my module would only >> be used to perform these custom operations while usbhid stays in charge >> of the whole "mouse business". > > Please just use the hidraw userspace driver/library instead, that way > you don't have to unbind the kernel driver and everything should work > just fine without having to touch the kernel at all. > > Hope this helps, > > greg k-h > > _______________________________________________ > Kernelnewbies mailing list > Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies -- "Do or do not. There is no try" Yoda Master _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
