Hi Peter, On Fri, Jun 03, 2011, Peter Hurley wrote: > The *real* history of this file is a nightmare. Now that it's > back in the bluez project, fix the problems that were added > while it was in udev. > > 1) Only hiddev* devices provide the ioctl interface hid2hci uses > to switch from HID->HCI for --method=logitech-hid. (inquiring > minds can look in the kernel git tree at drivers/hid/usbhid/hiddev.c) > 2) hidraw* devices don't belong to subsystem=usb (they are > subsystem=hidraw). This means that the udev rule that matched based on > hidraw* would never have been run anyway because of the early-out > subsystem!=usb on line 4. > > This fix is going to cause major regressions in distros because there > is currently no way provided by bluez to *NOT* run hid2hci. > > Many, many users (and maintainers) mistakenly believe that because > the keyboard and mouse works when the vid/pid of their device is matched > by the hidraw* rule, that "bluetooth" must be working. Of course, what's > really happening is the keyboard and mouse are working as HID input > devices instead. > > Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > scripts/bluetooth-hid2hci.rules | 4 +--- > 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) Applied (without the signed-off-by line since we don't use that). Thanks! Johan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-bluetooth" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
