From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Chris J Arges Subject: Re: [PATCH] hid: usbhid: add quirk for SB arena headset v2 Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2012 15:32:25 -0600 Message-ID: <50983069.5080404@canonical.com> References: <1352145945-8035-1-git-send-email-chris.j.arges@canonical.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from youngberry.canonical.com ([91.189.89.112]:44671 "EHLO youngberry.canonical.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751499Ab2KEVcM (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Nov 2012 16:32:12 -0500 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-input-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-input@vger.kernel.org To: Jiri Kosina Cc: linux-input@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org On 11/05/2012 02:18 PM, Jiri Kosina wrote: > On Mon, 5 Nov 2012, Chris J Arges wrote: > >> When an SB Arena USB headset is plugged in, it registers the volume >> keys on the headset as a keyboard and continually sends events causing >> issues with normal keyboard input. This quirk disables the volume keys. > > I don't know how the device looks like, but wouldn't it make more sense to > actually remap the bogus keys it's sending to produce KEY_VOLUMEUP and > KEY_VOLUMEDOWN? > Yes, if I can track this hardware down or get data I'll fix it like this. This happened to be a do-no harm fix for the following bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg-server/+bug/1007575 Thanks for the feedback. --chris j arges