Re: [PATCH] Input: add appleir USB driver

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:

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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