[Libusbx-devel] Linux patches for 1.0.9 release

[Xiaofan Chen]

On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 2:58 PM, Hans de Goede <hdegoede at redhat.com> wrote:
> My personal opinion on this is that if people need to talk to a HID device
> and only send HID requests (which is all which is supported with the
> windows HID backend, right?)
> they would be better of just using HIDAPI.

Kind of correct. But actually libusb-1.0 can provide something
which HIDAPI does not provide (setupapi derived information) like
speed, topology, etc. In the future, hotplug as well.

> With that said I'm not against having HID backends if people want them.
> Crazy idea, maybe we can have a HID backend on top of HIDAPI, then
> we can have one HID backend for all platforms ...

Good idea. :-)

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Xiaofan