On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 11:00:45AM -0300, Matheus Izvekov wrote:
> On 4/23/06, Vojtech Pavlik <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Yes, this one looks much better.
> >
> > The keyboard part of the device is OK, but the multimedia/mouse part is
> > totally FUBAR. Adding support for any keys that are not making it
> > through should be trivial, but making it not appear as a crazy joystick
> > is not realistically possible: The device insists on that it IS a device
> > from hell with almost all possible valuators defined in the HID spec.
> >
> > --
> > Vojtech Pavlik
> > Director SuSE Labs
> >
>
> Yes, its totally crap, should have know better before buying it : /
> But isnt it possible to create a blacklist for it, so the hid driver
> would ignore those valuators?
> Thats what devices with broken implementations deserve : )
A better option would be to provide an alternate (corrected) HID
descriptor for it. We already patch the HID descriptor of one keyboard,
so maybe to have generic descriptor replacement support in hid-core
would make sense.
--
Vojtech Pavlik
Director SuSE Labs
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