From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Henrik Rydberg Subject: Re: [PATCH] hid: Complete support for the new unibody macbooks Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:33:21 +0100 Message-ID: <49249431.9040104@euromail.se> References: <49109C91.6090207@euromail.se> <4919C979.3000501@euromail.se> <20081119113753.ZZRA012@mailhub.coreip.homeip.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.213]:38086 "EHLO ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750969AbYKSWdb (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:33:31 -0500 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-input-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-input@vger.kernel.org To: Jiri Kosina Cc: Dmitry Torokhov , Andrew Morton , linux-input@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Jiri Kosina wrote: [...] >>> Yes, I am aware of bcm5974 being dependent in HID driver not claiming >>> the mouse interface on this hardware. >>> Dmitry, what are your plans with this bcm5974 patch? 2.6.28 or 2.6.29? >> 2.6.29 - the driver is in use so I did nto want to touch it after .28 >> merge window closed. > > I see. I have already pushed the bits that ignore the mouse interface on > the hardware in question in HID code. But that should be perfectly fine, > as as the HID driver can't do anything with that mouse anyway. Without the mouse ignore quirk, HID will find the "normal" usb mouse interface. The current situation is much worse than to throw the bcm5974 patches in untested. And this is not even the case; the updated driver has been in use as a dkms package for almost a month. Cheers, Henrik