[libhid-discuss] Polling interrupt endpoint

[Rene]

Hi to all of You!

I (who am a total newbie to usb and libusb/libhid) am using libhid to 
both read and write from an IN and OUT interrupt endpoint in a hid. This 
goes OK with hid_interrupt_read() and hid_interrupt_write(). I have been 
doing a lot of reading about usb and have among many other things that 
an interrupt ep has a polling time. AFAI understand it, this is used for 
calculating the required bandwidth (along with the ep size, this is done 
by driver code that is on a lower level in the usb stack) and off course 
for setting the polling time. However, when I "steal" the device from 
the kernel hid driver, do I have to see to it that this polling time is 
respected? I guess I do because I can't find another possibility. Esp. 
for reading this is important. For writing (updating the readings on a 
display) I can just send a package whenever there is something to be 
sent, being carefull to respect the polling time.

Another question is how pressing a button on the usb device might wake 
up the pc if it is suspended. AFAI can see, this is not possible.

Are my own answers to my questions correct? Or am I overlooking something?

My last question is about the fact that there are two things taking 
place. The display part (the display is on the device) of my program is 
reading from a fifo, I could do that with a blocking read or with select 
with a time-out, the last option allows me to poll the in ep at a 
regular interval where the first one doesn't. The in ep needs to be read 
every 50 ms and then something has to be put into another fifo. What 
would be the most elegant solution to achieve this?

The thought occured to me that I could fork the program and have child 
and parent do their own parts.

Another option would be to have a select with just a timeout, when it 
times out (10ms) it polls the in ep every fifth time (polling time for 
the out ep is 10 ms, for in ep 50 ms) and it checks the fifo that in 
this case would have been opened as non-blocking to see if there is 
anything to send to the out ep.

I am not only new to usb and libhid but also rather new to Linux and 
would very much like to hear Your opinions about this or perhaps You 
have a completely different idea about how I would best design this.

Thank You very much in advance!

Yours sincerely,
Rene

P.S. And for the readers who have build libhid: A big thank You for that 
fact as well!