[fprint] aes1610 support

[Daniel Drake]

Daniel Drake wrote:
>> I have an AES1610 in an HP Pavilion tx1302au tablet PC which is listed
>> under the unsupported portion of your wiki. Do you think it's possible
>> to use one of the existing drivers and just add the USB ID to the USB
>> table and get it to work, or is there a lot of binary data changes in
>> there? Any chance of seeing this model supported in the near future?
> 
> I don't know much about this device, and don't have specs either.
> 
> I was recently made aware of a project called fingerforce and I saw this 
> on their mailing list:
> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/fingerforce-devel/2007-September/000015.html
> 
> So, maybe try adding the USB ID to libfprint's aes2501 driver, and/or 
> try contacting the people in that email to get their code and an 
> explanation of changes needed on top of the aes2501 driver.

Did you get a chance to try this and contact the people in that mail? 
I'm interested in supporting these devices. If you haven't had a chance 
yet, I will send the email myself.

Thanks,
Daniel