Changes between Version 2 and Version 3 of FAQ

Timestamp:

01/06/11 19:52:50 (2 years ago)

Author:

stuge

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FAQ

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 Besides the USB protocol restrictions, using the HID class is much more inconvenient on systems other than Windows. For what is probably historical reasons, the generic file-like API exposed by the Windows HID class-specific driver is unique. On other systems, the HID class driver does not offer a similar simple generic API.
 
-If the broadest platform compatiblity is important (this may be why you look toward libusb in the first place) then a much more neutral alternative is to use a vendor-specific device class. This requires that a device-specific kernel driver be installed on Windows, but that process can be automated completely using [wiki:libwdi].
+If the broadest platform compatiblity is important (this may be why you look toward libusb in the first place) then a much more neutral alternative is to use a vendor-specific device class. This requires that a device-specific kernel driver be installed on Windows, but that process can be automated completely using [wiki:libwdi], and on all other systems supported by libusb there is no need for any interaction at all with kernel drivers or the driver model.