diff --git a/System/HIDAPI.hsc b/System/HIDAPI.hsc
--- a/System/HIDAPI.hsc
+++ b/System/HIDAPI.hsc
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-{-# LANGUAGE ForeignFunctionInterface, DeriveDataTypeable #-}
+{-# LANGUAGE ForeignFunctionInterface, DeriveDataTypeable, DeriveGeneric #-}
 
 #include "hidapi/hidapi.h"
 
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
   ) where
 
 import Control.Applicative
+import Control.DeepSeq.Generics
 import Control.Exception
 import Control.Monad
 import Data.ByteString
@@ -31,6 +32,7 @@
 import Foreign
 import Foreign.C.Types
 import Foreign.C.String
+import GHC.Generics (Generic)
 
 type Hid_Device_Ptr = Ptr () -- used where hid_device* is used on C side
 newtype Device = Device Hid_Device_Ptr
@@ -86,8 +88,10 @@
   , usagePage :: Word16
   , usage :: Word16
   , interfaceNumber :: InterfaceNumber
-  } deriving (Show)
+  } deriving (Show, Generic)
 
+instance NFData DeviceInfo where rnf = genericRnf
+
 peekOptString :: Ptr CWchar -> IO (Maybe String)
 peekOptString p
   | p == nullPtr = return Nothing
@@ -110,12 +114,14 @@
   hid_error :: Hid_Device_Ptr -> IO CWString
 
 data HIDAPIException = HIDAPIException String String
-  deriving (Data, Typeable)
+  deriving (Data, Typeable, Generic)
 
 instance Show HIDAPIException where
   showsPrec _ (HIDAPIException a c) = showString a . showString ": " . showString c
 
 instance Exception HIDAPIException
+
+instance NFData HIDAPIException where rnf = genericRnf
 
 -- TODO As of https://github.com/signal11/hidapi/issues/123 it is unclear
 --      whether the passed in pointer may be NULL, and if hid_error ever
diff --git a/hidapi.cabal b/hidapi.cabal
--- a/hidapi.cabal
+++ b/hidapi.cabal
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 name:              hidapi
-version:           0.1
+version:           0.1.1
 build-type:        Simple
 cabal-version:     >= 1.6
 category:          Hardware
@@ -21,4 +21,5 @@
   build-depends:
       base < 5
     , bytestring >= 0.10
+    , deepseq-generics >= 0.1
   extra-libraries: hidapi-hidraw