I believe the point is to have such a driver in the vanilla kernel, not to
adopt a third-party driver.
Is this hardware available anywhere besides thrift stores?
personally i doubt it, thus i doubt it makes any point to try to put it to
vanilla. also there are other devices like tablets (like the wacom stuff),
joysticks, touchpads etc. which are cursed with similiar problem - they
appear as 'mere' serial device, they 'just' stream the data, yet each of
them speaks bit different language. and then - they all seem to do quite
same thing... xyz/buttons...
...except perhaps some 'universal' driver could be created, which would
have option to transcode inbetween various input devices like those
internally... so 'desperate users' could just tinker with translation
rules , rather than having to modify driver itself (even though it might
seem so simple...)
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