[BRLTTY] HID devices on OSX

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by rmgls on 2017/06/14 at 08:27 +0200]

>On OSX all HID devices i tested: (seika, varioUltra and esys40) and certainly some other do not start
>because the system takes the hand on all HID devices
>(brltty report device busy error 16).

That's good to know, thanks.

>We have two alternatives:
>one is to callling the osx HIDManager, the other is to free the device
>by cfRelease if i understand correctly the doc.
>Attached is the doc from Apple: HID_Accessing.txt.

Thanks.

>my question is What solution do you prefer?

On Linux, we free the device so we already have a mechanism for that that may 
just need an OS X implementation. We can try that, first.

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