[fprint] Egistec S801U

[Vasily Khoruzhick]

On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 8:32 AM, Fabian Zaremba <fabian at youremail.eu> wrote:
> Hello,

Hi Fabian,

>
> I found a repository on github containing libfprint support for the Egistec
> S801U (ID 1c7a:0801 LighTuning Technology Inc. Fingerprint Reader):
> https://github.com/lielfr/Libfprint-for-Egistec-S801U
>
> However, as this seems to be based on a 0.4.x branch I rebased this on the
> current git repo for personal use.
>
> I was able to get this working using an additional patch against libfprint
> imgdev.c found in Bug 30287 -
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30287 - without this patch the
> device would not accept a second scan after the first failed but instead
> loop in verify_retry_scan until timeout.
>
> You can find my patchset against current git master (commit 35e356f6) here:
> https://nf-design.eu/cloud/d/3a191bd2b2/
>
> Some parts of it are still a bit crude, like inclusion of the driver in
> core.c or libfprint/Makefile.am. Additionally, I just took the first
> available driver id 19.
>
> Any chance these patches could get into upstream?

Please create bug at fd.o bugzilla [1] with patches against libfprint
git master, add me to CC and I'll handle it.

Regards
Vasily

[1] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=libfprint

> Thank you,
> Fabian Zaremba
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