[fprint] Egistec S801U

[Fabian Zaremba]

Hi Vasily,

I created the requested bug report and set you CC - for the record, it 
can be found here:

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=73762

Regards,
Fabian

On 18.01.2014 09:09, Vasily Khoruzhick wrote:
> 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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