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From: Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky@c2i.net>
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Subject: Re: Get the USB descriptor string from uhid device
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On Tuesday 05 February 2013 22:21:44 Martin Laabs wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> currently I am writing an (linux compatible) UBS Joystick driver based on
> the libusbhid and the cuse4bsd framework.
> For the user I would like to get the sting from the usb device (that string
> which is also printed in the dmesg output)
> Do you have an idea how I can obtain this string with the libusbhid
> functions?
> 

Hi,

This is not supported. Thought you could suggest a patch. Or if you are using 
a devd script, you can possibly get it from there and pass it on as an 
argument to your software.

--HPS