From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Soeren Sonnenburg Subject: Re: HID blacklist for the Apple IR sensor Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 16:48:59 +0200 Message-ID: <1184165339.15323.32.camel@localhost> References: <20070710182636.GA12522@dose.home.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20070710182636.GA12522@dose.home.local> Sender: owner-linux-input@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Unsubscribe: To: Tino Keitel Cc: linux-input@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz, Nicolas Boichat List-Id: linux-input@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2007-07-10 at 20:26 +0200, Tino Keitel wrote: > Hi, > > in commit a417a21e10831bca695b4ba9c74f4ddf5a95ac06, the Apple IR sensor > was added to a blacklist so that no HID device is created anymore. > However, as of lirc 0.8.2, there is a lirc driver called "macmini" that > requires that HID device to work. There is also a driver that creates > an input device for the Apple IR sensor. It can be found in the > mactel-linux patches[1], but it is not in the kernel yet. I also don't > know how both sides behave if they are used concurrently. Sorry for the `late' reply... I was travelling... > I think that the blacklist entry for USB_DEVICE_ID_APPLE_IR should be > removed at least as long as the appleir.patch is not part of the > mainline kernel. If there is indeed a lirc driver for this providing all the functionality why would one ever want to have any appleir.patch in the future? I meant to pave the way for appleir to go in, but now I don't see a need for it as an in-kernel driver anymore. So I am fine with reverting the blacklist entry... and I am CC'ing this to Nicolas as I think the appleir.patch should be removed from the mactel svn for future releases. Soeren -- Sometimes, there's a moment as you're waking, when you become aware of the real world around you, but you're still dreaming.