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digimend kernel drivers for Debian

* Nowadays, most of digimend kernel drivers were mainlined
  into linux kernels.

  Thus digimend-dkms kernel modules will be conflicted with
  mainlined kernel modules.

  Original digimend-dkms was designed to be used already
  loaded kernel modules with hid-rebind.

  It is reasonable to do it, but it might be better to
  be easily distinguished what kernel modules are actually
  used.

  This is why kernel modules were renamed with hid-digimend prefix
  in Debian.

  Note that hid-polostar module is not mainlined yet, but for
  consistency, it was also renamed.

  digimend-dkms package provides 4 kernel modules - uid-digimend-kye,
  uid-digimend-uclogic, uid-digimend-polostar and
  uid-digimend-viewsonic.

 -- Kentaro HAYASHI <kenhys@xdump.org>, Sat, 14 Dec 2024 20:10:58 +0900