[fprint] VFS471

[Bastien Nocera]

On Thu, 2018-03-15 at 19:52 +0000, Mike wrote:
> Hi guys,
> 
> I'm a total newbie to mail lists, so hope this is ok..  
> 
> I like to add support for my HP EliteBook 2560p fingerprint reader
> and just started to look for Linux support, since I'm now running a
> dual boot environment with Windows 10, but atm I don't have any
> support for windows either. 
> 
> There's a windows driver for 8.1 out there that use to work. But
> since I have first done a fresh Windows installation and then Linux,
> I lost the driver in the process. Anyway, here's the result of
> lsusb..  
> 
> Bus 001 Device 003: ID 138a:003c Validity Sensors, Inc. VFS471
> Fingerprint Reader

Somebody wrote a wrapper for Validity's proprietary blob, but nobody
reversed engineered it and wrote a libfprint driver for it, so there's
no support for this variant yet.

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=97346

Cheers