[libhid-discuss] Fwd: Error 13 on running test_libhid

Charles Lepple clepple at ghz.cc
Wed Sep 12 12:01:46 UTC 2007


On Sep 11, 2007, at 7:50 PM, ankita prasad wrote:

> I found out that my HID device hasn't got a report descriptor. As  
> in the
> report descriptor is empty. Will I not be able to use libhid  
> because of
> this? I am pretty sure hid_force_open gives me a "device is not an HID
> device because it has no report descriptors. Am I correct?

libhid doesn't do much for you if there isn't a HID descriptor. The  
bulk of the library is the HID descriptor parser, and the functions  
that use the parser.

It shouldn't be hard to do what you're trying to do with raw libusb  
calls.

-- 
Charles Lepple






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