Re: HID blacklist for the Apple IR sensor

[Jiri Kosina <jikos@jikos.cz>]

On Tue, 10 Jul 2007, Tino Keitel wrote:

> 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.

Hi Tino,

so do I understand it correctly that there are two ways to use this device

- through lirc, which of course requires input device to be created by hid
- using appleir.patch, but this one is not yet upstream (what are the 
  obstacles?)

If it is so, and the device is not handled properly by any other in-tree 
driver, we should remove the ignore quirk.

> 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.

Would you care to send me a patch with proper changelog and Signed-off-by 
line?

Thanks,

-- 
Jiri Kosina