On Fri, 11 May 2012, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > From: Nestor Lopez Casado <nlopezcasad@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > > On big-endian systems (e.g., Apple PowerBook), trying to use a > logitech wireless mouse with the Logitech Unifying Receiver does not > work with v3.2 and later kernels. The device doesn't show up in > /dev/input. Older kernels work fine. > > That is because the new hid-logitech-dj driver claims the device. The > device arrival notification appears: > > 20 00 41 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 > > and we read the report_types bitfield (02 00 00 00) to find out what > kind of device it is. Unfortunately the driver only reads the first 8 > bits and treats that value as a 32-bit little-endian number, so on a > powerpc the report type seems to be 0x02000000 and is not recognized. > > Even on little-endian machines, connecting a media center remote > control (report type 00 01 00 00) with this driver loaded would > presumably fail for the same reason. > > Fix both problems by using get_unaligned_le32() to read all four > bytes, which is a little clearer anyway. After this change, the > wireless mouse works on Hugo's PowerBook again. > > Addresses http://bugs.debian.org/671292 > > [jn: with commit message and tweaked to use get_unaligned instead of > copying onto the stack] > > Reported-by: Hugo Osvaldo Barrera <hugo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> If Nestor is really the original author of this patch, his Signed-off-by: is necessary. Nestor, please? Thanks, -- Jiri Kosina SUSE Labs -- 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
