From: Jiri Kosina Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 11:40:06 +0000 (+0200) Subject: Merge branch 'uhid' into for-linus X-Git-Tag: master-2012-08-06~102^2 X-Git-Url: http://pileus.org/git/?p=~andy%2Flinux;a=commitdiff_plain;h=c062c4d1de57789bf15f7641a24c429eeb8a1c6a Merge branch 'uhid' into for-linus Conflicts: drivers/hid/Kconfig --- c062c4d1de57789bf15f7641a24c429eeb8a1c6a diff --cc drivers/hid/Kconfig index 00445bc3019,8cca0af2dbd..fbf49503508 --- a/drivers/hid/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/hid/Kconfig @@@ -53,6 -59,32 +53,27 @@@ config HIDRA If unsure, say Y. + config UHID + tristate "User-space I/O driver support for HID subsystem" + depends on HID + default n + ---help--- + Say Y here if you want to provide HID I/O Drivers from user-space. + This allows to write I/O drivers in user-space and feed the data from + the device into the kernel. The kernel parses the HID reports, loads the + corresponding HID Device Driver or provides input devices on top of your + user-space device. + + This driver cannot be used to parse HID-reports in user-space and write + special HID-drivers. You should use hidraw for that. + Instead, this driver allows to write the transport-layer driver in + user-space like USB-HID and Bluetooth-HID do in kernel-space. + + If unsure, say N. + + To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the + module will be called uhid. + -source "drivers/hid/usbhid/Kconfig" - -menu "Special HID drivers" - depends on HID - config HID_GENERIC tristate "Generic HID driver" depends on HID