Re: [PATCH 1/3] ir-kbd-i2c: Allow use of ir-kdb-i2c internal get_key funcs and set ir_type

[Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 02:26:53PM -0400, Mark Lord wrote:
> (resending.. somebody trimmed linux-kernel from the CC: earlier)
>
> Jean Delvare wrote:
>> On Sun, 19 Jul 2009 10:38:37 -0400, Mark Lord wrote:
>>> I'm debugging various other b0rked things in 2.6.31 here right now,
>>> so I had a closer look at the Hauppauge I/R remote issue.
>>>
>>> The ir_kbd_i2c driver *does* still find it after all.
>>> But the difference is that the output from 'lsinput' has changed
>>> and no longer says "Hauppauge".  Which prevents the application from
>>> finding the remote control in the same way as before.
>>
>> OK, thanks for the investigation.
>>
>>> I'll hack the application code here now to use the new output,
>>> but I wonder what the the thousands of other users will do when
>>> they first try 2.6.31 after release ?
>>
>> Where does lsinput get the string from?
> ..
>
> Here's a test program for you:
>

And I  think have a fix for that, commit

f936601471d1454dacbd3b2a961fd4d883090aeb

in the for-linus branch of my tree.

-- 
Dmitry