Re: [PATCHes] Apple IR receiver driver

[Bastien Nocera <hadess@hadess.net>]

On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 15:34 +0100, Tino Keitel wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 14:14:25 +0000, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
> > --- a/drivers/hid/hid-core.c
> > +++ b/drivers/hid/hid-core.c
> > @@ -1540,6 +1540,8 @@ static const struct hid_device_id hid_ignore_list[] = {
> >  	{ HID_USB_DEVICE(USB_VENDOR_ID_AIPTEK, USB_DEVICE_ID_AIPTEK_24) },
> >  	{ HID_USB_DEVICE(USB_VENDOR_ID_AIRCABLE, USB_DEVICE_ID_AIRCABLE1) },
> >  	{ HID_USB_DEVICE(USB_VENDOR_ID_ALCOR, USB_DEVICE_ID_ALCOR_USBRS232) },
> > +	{ HID_USB_DEVICE(USB_VENDOR_ID_APPLE, USB_DEVICE_ID_APPLE_IRCONTROL) },
> > +	{ HID_USB_DEVICE(USB_VENDOR_ID_APPLE, USB_DEVICE_ID_APPLE_IRCONTROL4) },
> >  	{ HID_USB_DEVICE(USB_VENDOR_ID_ASUS, USB_DEVICE_ID_ASUS_LCM)},
> >  	{ HID_USB_DEVICE(USB_VENDOR_ID_ASUS, USB_DEVICE_ID_ASUS_LCM2)},
> >  	{ HID_USB_DEVICE(USB_VENDOR_ID_AVERMEDIA, USB_DEVICE_ID_AVER_FM_MR800) },
> 
> My impression is that this would break existing lirc setups that use
> the macmini lirc userspace driver which relies on a HID device, right?

Yes, which I mentioned could be worked around using usbhid.quirks on
boot (if you need the extra key definitions), or using lirc's uinput
driver (if you're using the stock hardware).