On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 19:32:36 -0700, Greg KH wrote: > On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 01:27:33AM +0200, Tino Keitel wrote: [...] > > When the appleir kernel driver is used, the IR device acts as in input > > device, not as a HID device. LIRC has to be configured to use its > > dev/input driver in this case. This is a generic driver to use any > > input device as lirc device. The dev/input driver relies on the key > > events that are generated by the kernel. > > Hm, I just got a private email (for some odd reason) saying this driver > isn't needed at all, they just add a hid quirk line. Maybe this email came from a person who uses a distro kernel that already included the appleir driver? IIRC at least Ubuntu did that once. If not, I'd be interested in the detailed setup. > Now why that hid quirk line hadn't been added for the year or so that > the person knew about it, sure is odd to me... There was a quirk line in the past. It was introduced by accident with 2.6.22 with commit a417a21e10831bca695b4ba9c74f4ddf5a95ac06. The commit message only mentions keyboard and mouse devices, so I think the quirk for the IR device was unintended. Then I wasted several hours when I tried to use the macmini LIRC driver with 2.6.22. The HID device that I saw came from my LCD, not from the IR device, and I wasn't aware of the HID ignore quirk as the kernel didn't mention it when the device was detected. That's why I also suggested that the kernel should be more verbose about such ignore quirks and blacklists. In the end I found that quirk an requested to remove it. This was done in 2.6.23-rc2. Regards, Tino -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-input" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
