Re: HID-generic + HID-ANOTHER interaction problems

On Fri, 16 Nov 2012, Adam Sutton wrote:

Ta - just noticed I mailed from wrong address so original post did not go
to mailing list.

1. the unbind/bind was actually the first thing I tried (should have
mentioned that) before resorting to removing hid-generic. This worked fine
for me in the past when I had loaded my own precursor to the current
hid-spinelplus remote. However when I tried it with the latest code it
simply resulted in an unusable remote (nothing worked) it didn't even work
when I remapped back to hid-generic. So something is broken there?

Was this some kernel between 3.7-rc1 and 3.7-rc5? There was a bug in 
rebinding drivers to devices which got fixed by commit df0cfd69903 in 
Linus' tree.

2. Sure I can see about doing that :) Maybe you could have a quick look at
the code here (
https://github.com/OpenELEC/OpenELEC.tv/blob/master/packages/linux/patches/linux-3.6.6-053-spinelplus-remote-0.1.patch)
to see if there is anything needs changing (the hid_have_special_driver[]
mods aside) before it will be accepted.

The driver looks fine, but as it contains solely usage -> keycode mapping, 
it should be possible to do it completely in userspace. There are already 
a lot of udev rules for this you can use for inspiration -- in recent udev 
releases they are located in /lib/udev/rules.d/keymaps, and are handled by 
master /lib/udev/rules.d/*keymap* rule.

Hope this helps,

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs