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

[Henrik Rydberg <rydberg@euromail.se>]

Jiri Kosina wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Nov 2008, Henrik Rydberg wrote:
> 
>>> 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.
> 
> That I fully understand. But I though that the device is so much HID 
> standard non-compliant, that even basic functionality is not possible with 
> the generic HID driver, and therefore blacklisting it immediately can't do 
> any harm. That's what I understood previously. But if this is wrong, and 
> the HID code can get at least basic functionality from the device, I will 
> revert the blacklist addition.

Basic functionality is possible with the generic HID driver.

Thanks,
Henrik