Re: IFeel support

[Vojtech P. <vo...@su...>]

On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 12:56:06PM -0500, Adam Goode wrote:

> I have a couple such mice, and I had wanted to start such work last summer.
> 
> But I ran into a few issues, and kind of just put things on hold.
> Perhaps these are now adequately solved?
> 
> Issues:
> 
>  * The HID driver which controls mice and mice-like devices had no support
>    for force feedback stuff, and I really didn't want to make a 
>    completely new driver which was specific to the iFeel and yet
>    was 99% identical to the generic HID stuff.

I think the HID driver can be extended to handle ifeel. The same way as
it will have to be extened to handle PID. There isn't much difference,
really. By the way, we could get rid of the Wacoms in the black list
this way as well.

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Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs