Re: keyboard/trackpad combo unusable on MacBookPro4,1 with bcm5974.ko

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On Fri, 27 Feb 2015, "Christian Böhme" wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> this is a response to
> 
> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14987#c6
> 
> whose main thread more or less merely rehashes what was
> already said in other (bug) reports before it elsewhere.
> 
> I'd like for this to be a reminder that the issue never
> really was resolved but left lingering beginning with
> kernel version 2.6.28 (yes, that long ago).
> 
> Specifically, HID_QUIRK_IGNORE_MOUSE existed in 2.6.27
> and was dealt with in drivers/hid/usbhid/hid-core.c:730,
> thereby somehow "fixing things".  But those lines (and
> the symbol) disappeared after 2.6.27.  Why were they
> removed?

They weren't removed.  The symbol was changed to APPLE_IGNORE_MOUSE and 
the implementation was moved to drivers/hid/hid-apple.c.  To get the 
benefit, you have to enable CONFIG_HID_APPLE.

> Is there any chance for this problem to be fixed or
> am I really expected to downgrade that far just to
> have a working keyboard and trackpad?

It should have been working all along if your kernel configuration was 
correct.

Alan Stern

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