Re: [linuxdc-dev]Puru puru driver

[Adrian M. <ad...@mc...>]

On Sunday 10 Feb 2002 9:59 pm, M. R. Brown wrote:
> * RC5Stint <rc5...@ya...> on Sun, Feb 10, 2002:
> > After all this research, just provide an API for this type of device,
> > make it portable and generic enough, and leave it to UI and
> > application developers to worry about what to do with it.  Don't
> > sweat it if you yourself can't find a *nix use for the device.
>
> Fortunately he's saved from such a trek, since this API does exist in 2.4
> already :P.
>
> > Take a break and shug a beer (or two, or three.)  You've been
> > thinking too hard. :-)
>
> Shoot, at the pace he's going he'll have all Maple devices accounted for in
> the next few weeks!
>

That's setting me up for a fall - I only started on this one because I'd 
reached a deadend with the mic :->

> > Not trying to insult you, but if it only does output, it's obviously
> > an output device, dude.
>
> /me comes to Adrian's defense...
>
> Technically yes, but in the conventional sense vibration units are usually
> built into the joystick device.  Sega's like the only group insane enough
> to physically abstract that implementation, but it still belongs to the
> input API, since it follows that general model.
>
I talked to the author of the kernel FF API and I think he was pretty 
surprised about the brain dead nature of Puru Puru (ie there seems to be 
little flexibility in terms of cpu->user and nothing from user->cpu.

When you consider that there are people out their dealing with 


> M. R.