Re: [Libusb-devel] hidapi and HID Report Descriptor parsing

[Nikolai K. <sp...@gm...>]

On 09/27/2010 11:50 AM, Ludovic Rousseau wrote:
> I need to get the Report Count from my HID device to know the size I
> need to use in hid_write(). The hidapi does not provide anything like
> that. I could hardcode the size but I don't like that.
>
> lsusb -v gives me the information I need. It also looks like libhid
> can do that with the ReportCount field of the HIDParser struct.
> My problem is that both lsusb (from usbutils) and libhid are GPL and
> not LGPL. So I can't (legally) use them for my project.
>
> Do you know a LGPL or BSD licensed HID parser?
When I was starting my own HID parser I did a research and didn't find
anything except libhid, now there is hidapi and that's all I know about.

However, I could maybe help you write your own for your specific purposes
- it's not that hard. What information do you need, exactly?

Sincerely,
Nick