[vdr] Re: Remote Control over USB

[Rene Bartsch <ml@bartschnet.de>]

Am Son, 2003-07-06 um 18.56 schrieb Ray Glendenning:
> Hi
> 
> You do not have to make a device into an HID device (like a keyboard,
> mouse,
> or joystick) to be able to write a linux input driver for it.  The
> logic and
> translation/mapping could be done within the driver if the firmware
> passes
> raw data.
> 

Of course, yes. But this means you have to install a driver module. So
you have to be root and you might break your system if you mess up
things. Some input/HID-class in the firmware would make the Igor-USB a
real plug&pray device (or what is USB for?)!

Rene



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