Re: [PATCH 00/21] HID over GATT plugin

[David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Pavan

On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 12:08 AM, Pavan Savoy <pavan_savoy@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Johan, Joao,
>
> Why wasn't uinput sub-system used ?
> May be there was a discussion regarding this on list & I missed it ?

Yes, there was a discussion on linux-bluetooth and linux-input. If we
use uinput then we need a user-space HID parser. That would mean
duplicating a lot of kernel HID code.

> why invent uHID ? or the project previously existed ?

What project do you mean here? I don't know any predecessor of uHID.
Btw. uhid is already in Jiri's tree and scheduled for 3.6.

Regards
David
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