[Nut-upsdev] newhidups... at last.

[Patrick Agrain]

At 09:24 13/01/2006, Arnaud Quette wrote:
>Hi Patrick
>
>Happy new year too, and pleased to see the move to newhidups.
>
>Your problem sits in the kernel version (2.4.17).
>To take advantage of the driver unbind feature of newhidups / libusb, 
>which permits to unbind linux hiddev, and to take the hand on the device, 
>you either need to switch to 2.4.22, or to blacklist MGE units in the 
>linuw hid stack...
>
>That's why the claiming is failing.
>I can find back my old patch, or rebuild one for you, so that you can go on.

Thank you Arnaud for this hint.

I'm affraid that switching to another kernel version is far far away for my 
managers ;-)
I will blacklist the MGE to avoid the hid driver to be waken up.

If you find again your patch, I will be pleased to get it.

Thanks in advance.
Best regards,
Patrick Agrain