[fprint] VFS5011 driver

[Albert Vaca]

On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 5:27 PM, Vasily Khoruzhick <anarsoul at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 7:18 PM, Albert Vaca <albertvaka at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello guys!
>
> Hi Albert,
>
> > My thinkpad's fingerprint reader is not supported by libfprint, but I just
> > discovered there is a "fork" to support it (actually, the only change is the
> > inclusion of a driver!).
> >
> > https://github.com/ars3niy/fprint_vfs5011
> >
> > Is there any (good) reason why this driver is not included in the main
> > project?
> >
>
> It took some time for authors to clean up driver, see
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61692
> There's still one thing I don't like about it - it has no means to
> stop device properly and issues USB reset for a device,
> but I guess I'll take it.
>
> >
> > Thanks for your time and keep up the good work!
> >
> > Albert Vaca
> >
>
> Regards
> Vasily
>
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Hello Vasily,

Thanks for your reply, I didn't realize it was already on its way to be merged!

I hope we see it included soon :) Drivers' code is quite stand-alone,
so merging them even if they don't meet all the project quality
standards should be okay. IMHO is worth it to have support for more
hardware.

Thanks again!
Albert Vaca