When you pinch a photo to zoom, you are not thinking about report descriptors, usage tables, or collection applications. You are thinking about the photo. And that cognitive seamlessness is the driver’s only metric of success.
This is why you can plug a generic USB touch overlay into a Windows laptop, and it works instantly. It is why booting a Linux live USB on a MacBook often gives you a working touchpad without installing anything. The HID driver is the ultimate minimalist: it assumes nothing and translates everything. The most beautiful word in that phrase is "compliant" . In human society, compliance is often drudgery. In engineering, compliance is liberation. hid compliant touch screen driver
A device is not born HID-compliant; it must be made so. The hardware manufacturer must embed a tiny microcontroller that does nothing but convert raw touch data into the rigid, beautiful syntax of HID reports. This is a sacrifice of uniqueness for the sake of universality. Your custom multi-touch grid might be brilliant, but if it doesn't output HID packets, the OS will treat it as a brick. When you pinch a photo to zoom, you