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List:       linux-driver-devel
Subject:    A tablet driver question
From:       jkosina () suse ! cz (Jiri Kosina)
Date:       2009-05-21 8:35:05
Message-ID: alpine.LRH.2.00.0905211033450.29030 () twin ! jikos ! cz
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On Wed, 20 May 2009, Mohamed Ikbel Boulabiar wrote:

> > You still can read the events through hidraw (or via
> > deprecated hiddev).
> Why hiddev is deprecated ?

Well, "deprecated" is maybe too strong expression. It's not flexible 
enough -- it is USB-only, it interprets the data "too much" (parses them 
according to the device report descriptor), which sometimes makes it 
harder to write specialized drivers which require no parsing at all, etc.

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs


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