Re: [PATCHes] Apple IR receiver driver

[Bastien Nocera <hadess@hadess.net>]

On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 17:19 +0100, Tino Keitel wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 16:07:13 +0000, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > Pass something along those lines:
> > usbhid.quirks=0xVID:0xPID:0xQUIRK
> > on the kernel command-line, and the appleir won't pick up the device,
> > and the current quirks would be restored.
> 
> So I guess this would be usbhid.quirks=0x05ac:0x8240:0xsomething.
> 
> The remaining question is what "something" should be.

The mask for HIDDEV and HIDINPUT_IGNORE (which I don't know on top of my
head, and will only lookup if Dmitry thinks documentation is required).

> > Given that I seriously doubt there's very many people interested in
> > using "non-standard" remotes with those receivers, it would make most
> > users' life easier (and I doubt that the people that have the hardware
> > bothered setting up lirc on their systems...).
> 
> IMHO "non-standard" remotes are interesting especially with this
> remote, because the vendor supplied remote has only six keys.          

Yes, and I don't know of anyone using the non-standard remotes with this
receiver, and they could still do it with a bit of tweaking (which would
be necessary to setup the other keys anyway).

> Is there really no way to make the quirk only effective if the appleir
> driver is active?

Not easily, no, though the quirks should soon be changeable at run-time,
so you could potentially not even have to reboot.

Cheers