What can I do to use the optical rotary encoder as an optical mouse?

Question

Qt

In general, I have this idea. I think to take an optical encoder from Grayhill series 62F. and connect with, for example, TC9350BFN-T00 (optical mouse controller) and then connect to PC via USB. Apparently, further you will have to write a driver for this kind of mouse under linux. First, debug it on a PC, and then connect this driver to the 2.6 kernel and port it to an embedded system (there is a sk-imx53 board). I am writing a graphical program in Qt, which uses the wheelEvent event function (mouse wheel rotation event), which changes the numbers when the widget is focused. Previously, I did not write drivers for Linux, can someone give some information with comments on writing mouse drivers and connecting them to the kernel.?

Answer 1

Why do you need to write drivers? They are all already written in the system if you are using a standard controller.

Answer 2

I rummaged through the kernel sources, I never found a driver for this chip. Can this chip be considered a standard controller?