Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 16 May 2008 01:27:33 +0200 | From | Tino Keitel <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Input: add appleir USB driver |
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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
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