On 07/29/2014, 04:18 PM, Jeff Mahoney wrote:
I know this is cumbersome, but the documentation rules are mostly from the upstream kernel. They exist for long-term maintainability of the kernel. I know you just want to get your tablet's keyboard working, but everyone wants to just get /something/ working and we'd end up with a mess if we accepted patches outside of the rules.
What a nice write-up, Jeff!
Unfortunately, it seems that the HID subsystem doesn't support the new_id mechanism that PCI and general USB devices do (HID is an abstraction layer above the USB bus). Otherwise, it would be possible to tell the driver about the new IDs at runtime until your kernel patch is accepted.
new_id support was added some time later after the conversion to bus. So Shawn, you actually can echo something to that file to make your device working. But since I see no device information here, I cannot tell you what exactly to write to which driver in /sys/bus/hid/drivers/*/new_id thanks, -- js suse labs -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+owner@opensuse.org