Where is the code for an individual or multiple drivers?

[Benjamin Berg]

Hi,

how did you manage to find an 8 year old copy?

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/libfprint/libfprint

Benjamin

On Tue, 2024-03-26 at 08:21 +0000, Andy Doddington wrote:
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> Hi,
> 
> Thanks for that. The documentation that you refer to looks like it
> was generated directly from code (Doxygen?) with very little
> explanation of the context or lifecycle etc. You refer to the actual
> driver code as providing useful example(s), but where is this code?
> I've looked at what I believe is the Git repo
> (https://github.com/keyme/libfprint), but can't locate the drivers.
> 
> It's a shame that fprint looks like so many other topics (e.g.
> printf). Reminds me of the time when I needed to get details of the
> Hilton in Paris ;-)
> 
> With apologies for being dense...
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> Kind Regards,
> 
>          Andy Doddington
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> > Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2024 09:33:14 +0100
> > From: Benjamin Berg <benjamin at sipsolutions.net>
> > To: Andy Doddington <andy at doddington.net>,
> >         "fprint at lists.freedesktop.org"
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> > Subject: Re: How to write an fprint driver? Plus examples if
> > possible?
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> > On Sat, 2024-03-23 at 18:42 +0000, Andy Doddington wrote:
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> > > > 
> > > > Dear All,
> > > > I note from the documentation
> > > > at?
> > > > https://fprint.freedesktop.org/libfprint-dev/intro.html?that:
> > > > "This documentation is not aimed at developers wishing to
> > > > develop
> > > > and?, contribute fingerprint device drivers to libfprint".
> > 
> > Haha, I didn't know that string existed. That is not true anymore ?
> > 
> > I mean, look at?https://fprint.freedesktop.org/libfprint-dev/?there
> > is
> > an entire section on "Writing Drivers", not sure why you got stuck
> > on
> > the Introduction which is probably still there from libfprint 0.x
> > times
> > ;-)
> > 
> > I think these days most of the internal API surface is
> > documentation.
> > Likely not perfect, but it should be a quite good overall. So, take
> > a
> > look at it, but also be willing to accept that there might be some
> > mistakes or gaps in the documentation. In the same way as the
> > sentence
> > you quoted is definitely not true anymore.?:-)
> > 
> > > > Given that, could you please direct me to the documentation
> > > > that
> > > > *is* meant to server this purpose - ideally with some example
> > > > code?
> > > > I have just bought a laptop that does not provide a Linux-
> > > > compatible fingerprint reader, even though it has one that is
> > > > used
> > > > by Windows 11 (sigh...).?
> > 
> > Please refer to the existing drivers. There is no point in creating
> > an
> > example. Take a look at a few different and go from there. To
> > start,
> > figure out if you have a match-on-host or match-on-chip device and
> > try
> > to find a similar driver from there.
> > 
> > Benjamin
> > 
> > > > 
> > > > Clearly, this is not a promise on my part, but it might be
> > > > worth a
> > > > try - just for the fun of it.
> > > > 
> > > > Kind Regards,
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > ? ? ? ? ?Andy Doddington
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