gnupic: Thread: Re: possibility to blacklist HID PICKit 1 and PICkit 2

This might be a good news. I will try to do this once I am with my Linux
computer three weeks later.

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From: Greg KH ####@####.####
Date: Jul 18, 2007 8:10 PM
Subject: Re: [linux-usb-devel] [PATCH 70/78] USB: add picdem device to ldu sb
To: Xiaofan Chen
Cc: "Hund, Michael" , Joey Goncalves,
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On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 07:43:24PM -0400, Xiaofan Chen wrote:
>  On 7/18/07, Greg KH  wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 04:28:29PM -0400, Xiaofan Chen wrote:
> > >  One more thing, ldusb supports some HID device. How does it prevent
> > >  the kernel USBHID driver from claiming it?
> >
> > The usb hid driver has a very large blacklist of devices that are not
> > really HID devices.  The ones claimed by this driver are in that list.
> >
>
>  I see. Thanks.
>
>  Just wondering what is the policy of accepting a
>  device into the HID blacklist? Right now we need to detach the
>  kernel usbhid driver in various libusb based application for the
>  PICkit 1 and PICKit 2 USB Programmers.
>
>  #define USB_VENDOR_ID_MICROCHIP         0x04d8
>  #define USB_DEVICE_ID_PICKIT1           0x0032
>  #define USB_DEVICE_ID_PICKIT2           0x0033
>
>  So to blacklist PICKit 1 and 2 is not necessary but might help
>  to reduce support and patches to the old application. ;-)

If they are not really hid devices and you don't want the hid driver to
bind to them, we will gladly add them to the blacklist.  Just send a
patch to the hid maintainer.

thanks,

greg k-h