From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tino Keitel Subject: Re: [PATCH] Input: add appleir USB driver Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 01:27:33 +0200 Message-ID: <20080515232733.GA16655@dose.home.local> References: <20080514221519.GA6575@kroah.com> <20080515132108.GA9327@dose.home.local> <20080515094212.ZZRA012@mailhub.coreip.homeip.net> <20080515184034.GB15231@kroah.com> <20080515205959.GA11683@dose.home.local> <20080515211117.GA32573@kroah.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eazy.amigager.de ([213.239.192.238]:39604 "EHLO eazy.amigager.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751424AbYEOX0q (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 May 2008 19:26:46 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080515211117.GA32573@kroah.com> Sender: linux-input-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-input@vger.kernel.org To: Greg KH Cc: Dmitry Torokhov , jkosina@suse.cz, linux-input@vger.kernel.org, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 14:11:17 -0700, Greg KH wrote: > On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 10:59:59PM +0200, Tino Keitel wrote: [...] > > The macmini LIRC driver is a pure userspace driver, so nothing > > needs to > > be ever included in the kernel. > > So does this driver work with the macmini USB ir device today > somehow? Yes, I'm using it for months. > From what I can tell, this driver is still necessary for things to > work > properly for this hardware, right? When the appleir kernel driver is used, the IR device acts as in input device, not as a HID device. LIRC has to be configured to use its dev/input driver in this case. This is a generic driver to use any input device as lirc device. The dev/input driver relies on the key events that are generated by the kernel. Regards, Tino