Re: [PATCH] hid: Complete support for the new unibody macbooks

[Henrik Rydberg <rydberg@euromail.se>]

Jiri Kosina wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Nov 2008, Henrik Rydberg wrote:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> Therefore my memory must have been wrong -- I thought that you told me 
> when I was merging f89bd95c5c that the devices are not standard HID 
> devices at all, and therefore they can be safely ignored by the driver 
> right away, as they can't be driven by HID driver anyway.

These usb devices provide several different functions through the same
interface. By default, it looks like a regular mouse interface, which
HID will claim. This is why we need the quirks.

> If this is not the case, I'll then revert the hid_mouse_ignore_list[] 
> addition peformed in a96d6ef34 and will push it for 2.6.29, so that it 
> goes in together with bcm5974 driver modifications.

Yes, I think that is best.

> Thanks and sorry if I messed this up,

No harm done. :-)

Thanks,
Henrik