Samsung 7305

Status: WIP (unmerged upstream MR)

Device ID(s): 04e8:7305

This is a driver that has been submitted to the official libfprint project but is not merged yet, so it is not in any released libfprint. Tracked here so people with this sensor can find and build the work in progress.

Upstream merge request

• libfprint MR !586: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/libfprint/libfprint/-/merge_requests/586
• Author: Justin Hall (@jwhall)

What it does

New samsung7305 driver.

How to use it

The code lives in the merge request, not in this repo. To try it, check out the MR's source branch of libfprint and build from source (see docs/BUILD.md for the shared build, install, PAM and troubleshooting steps), or follow any instructions in the MR discussion.

# fetch the MR branch into a libfprint checkout, e.g.
git fetch https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/libfprint/libfprint.git \
  merge-requests/586/head:mr-586
git checkout mr-586

Tested on

Not documented.

License

Part of libfprint (LGPL-2.1).