On Tue, 10 Jul 2007, Tino Keitel wrote: > in commit a417a21e10831bca695b4ba9c74f4ddf5a95ac06, the Apple IR sensor > was added to a blacklist so that no HID device is created anymore. > However, as of lirc 0.8.2, there is a lirc driver called "macmini" that > requires that HID device to work. There is also a driver that creates an > input device for the Apple IR sensor. It can be found in the > mactel-linux patches[1], but it is not in the kernel yet. I also don't > know how both sides behave if they are used concurrently.
Hi Tino, so do I understand it correctly that there are two ways to use this device - through lirc, which of course requires input device to be created by hid - using appleir.patch, but this one is not yet upstream (what are the obstacles?) If it is so, and the device is not handled properly by any other in-tree driver, we should remove the ignore quirk. > I think that the blacklist entry for USB_DEVICE_ID_APPLE_IR should be > removed at least as long as the appleir.patch is not part of the > mainline kernel. Would you care to send me a patch with proper changelog and Signed-off-by line? Thanks, -- Jiri Kosina
