Re: HID blacklist for the Apple IR sensor

[Soeren Sonnenburg <kernel@nn7.de>]

On Tue, 2007-07-10 at 20:26 +0200, Tino Keitel wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 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.

Sorry for the `late' reply... I was travelling...

> 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.

If there is indeed a lirc driver for this providing all the
functionality why would one ever want to have any appleir.patch in the
future? I meant to pave the way for appleir to go in, but now I don't
see a need for it as an in-kernel driver anymore.

So I am fine with reverting the blacklist entry... and I am CC'ing this
to Nicolas as I think the appleir.patch should be removed from the
mactel svn for future releases.

Soeren
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