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...after numerous more hours of understanding how things work.

Not mentioned in this title is that this is a USB device driver, for a relatively simple device, with existing code available. This is essentially a code-to-code "translation" task. I can see how this looks very impressive, but IMHO it's like watching anyone else skilled at their profession.

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> ...after numerous more hours of understanding how things work. > > Not mentioned in this title is that this is a USB device driver, for a relatively simple device, with existing code available. This is essentially a code-to-code "translation" task. I can see how this looks very impressive, but IMHO it's like watching anyone else skilled at their profession.

Yeah - the title is a little off. My apologies! I'm not super knowledgeable about the kernel myself and while I did gain some knowledge from watching the video a lot of it looked like pure magic.

If a mod wants to edit the title to remove the "from scratch" and add that it's a device driver that would be great but otherwise, no worries

Done. Thanks for the interesting submission!

One that barely has a reason to exist, a front panel is probably better served being managed by some libusb application in userspace..

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