Re: [PATCHes] Apple IR receiver driver

[Jarod Wilson <jarod@redhat.com>]

On 1/18/10 11:36 AM, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> 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).

HID_QUIRK_IGNORE, iirc, is 0x4.

>>> 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).

The most common non-standard remote I've heard of people using is a
Logitech Harmony remote, which they program 6 buttons at a time, then
cycle to the next code set, program 6 more, rinse, repeat, etc.

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Jarod Wilson
jarod@redhat.com