libhid-detach-device(1)

libhid-detach-device1

Simple tool to take away control over a hid from the kernel hid driver's

Usage

libhid-detach-device dead:beef

Overview

libhid-detach-device removes the device identified by the ID string (as output by lsusb) from under the kernel HID driver's control. Subsequently, programmes using libhid™ can access the HID's descriptors from user-space (and lsusb -vvv can give information about the HID usages).

Releases

Unchanged in 3 releases since Debian 3.1 (Sarge).

  1. 3.1–5.0

Author

This manual page was written by martin f. krafft <[email protected]>

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the Artistic License: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/artistic-license.php: . On Debian systems, the complete text of the Artistic License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/Artistic.

Author

Martin F. Krafft.

From libhid0 0.2.15+20060325-2.2 in Debian 5.0 (Lenny). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.