Re: [linux-usb-devel] Anything new about Logitech IFeel-Mouse ForceFeedback-Support?

[James S. <jsi...@tr...>]

> Part 2 doesn't exist yet, because we don't have Part 1... ;)

Well we pretty much do. 

>  a) The lack of a good way to send interrupt messages to USB devices
>     from userspace (like libusb, but someone suggested this isn't too
>     hard to fix),

By interrupt messages what do you mean exactly.

>  b) the somewhat more troubling problem of where to fit the iFeel driver.
>     The iFeel mouse is a regular old HID device, and I think that the
>     HID driver does a wonderful job in controlling it. But the iFeel has
>     an extra interrupt endpoint which takes the force feedback commands,
>     and I wasn't sure the best way to put this nonstandard extension
>     into the current USB framework without rewriting or duplicating a
>     lot of code nicely implemented in the HID driver.

> Problem b is a more complicated issue, and I think this needs to be resolved
> before we can move forward. I don't think it's a huge issue, but it needs
> to be addressed. The place to do it is with the linuxconsole folks...

Hm. Do you have documentation on the iFeel protocol to how we can fit
things together?