On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 19:32:36 -0700, Greg KH wrote:

On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 01:27:33AM +0200, Tino Keitel wrote:

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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.

Hm, I just got a private email (for some odd reason) saying this driver
isn't needed at all, they just add a hid quirk line.

Maybe this email came from a person who uses a distro kernel that
already included the appleir driver? IIRC at least Ubuntu did that
once. If not, I'd be interested in the detailed setup.

Now why that hid quirk line hadn't been added for the year or so that
the person knew about it, sure is odd to me...

There was a quirk line in the past. It was introduced by accident with
2.6.22 with commit a417a21e10831bca695b4ba9c74f4ddf5a95ac06. The commit
message only mentions keyboard and mouse devices, so I think the quirk
for the IR device was unintended.

Then I wasted several hours when I tried to use the macmini LIRC driver
with 2.6.22. The HID device that I saw came from my LCD, not from the
IR device, and I wasn't aware of the HID ignore quirk as the kernel
didn't mention it when the device was detected. That's why I also
suggested that the kernel should be more verbose about such ignore
quirks and blacklists.

In the end I found that quirk an requested to remove it. This was done
in 2.6.23-rc2.

Regards,
Tino