Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:10:03 +0100 | From | Henrik Rydberg <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] hid: Complete support for the new unibody macbooks |
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Jiri Kosina wrote: > On Wed, 19 Nov 2008, Henrik Rydberg wrote: > >> Without the mouse ignore quirk, HID will find the "normal" usb mouse >> interface. The current situation is much worse than to throw the bcm5974 >> patches in untested. And this is not even the case; the updated driver >> has been in use as a dkms package for almost a month. > > Therefore my memory must have been wrong -- I thought that you told me > when I was merging f89bd95c5c that the devices are not standard HID > devices at all, and therefore they can be safely ignored by the driver > right away, as they can't be driven by HID driver anyway.
These usb devices provide several different functions through the same interface. By default, it looks like a regular mouse interface, which HID will claim. This is why we need the quirks.
> If this is not the case, I'll then revert the hid_mouse_ignore_list[] > addition peformed in a96d6ef34 and will push it for 2.6.29, so that it > goes in together with bcm5974 driver modifications.
Yes, I think that is best.
> Thanks and sorry if I messed this up,
No harm done. :-)
Thanks, Henrik
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