linux-kernel - [PATCH] usbhid quirks for macbook(pro) (was: Re: Fwd: Re: [linux-usb-devel] usb initialization order (usbhid vs. appletouch))

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Message-Id: <1165598367.19187.18.camel@localhost>
Date:	Fri, 08 Dec 2006 18:19:27 +0100
From:	Soeren Sonnenburg <kernel@....de>
To:	Joseph Fannin <jhf@...umbus.rr.com>
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@...ah.com>,
	Oliver Neukum <oliver@...kum.name>,
	Sergey Vlasov <vsu@...linux.ru>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-usb-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net
Subject: [PATCH] usbhid quirks for macbook(pro) (was: Re: Fwd: Re:
	[linux-usb-devel] usb initialization order (usbhid	vs. appletouch))

On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 05:12 -0500, Joseph Fannin wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 28, 2006 at 10:27:46PM +0200, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote:
> > On Sat, 2006-10-28 at 20:55 +0200, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> > > > From: Sergey Vlasov <vsu@...linux.ru>
> > > > Subject: usbhid: Add HID_QUIRK_IGNORE_MOUSE flag
> > > >
> > > > Some HID devices by Apple have both keyboard and mouse interfaces; the
> > > > keyboard interface is handled by usbhid, but the mouse (really
> > > > touchpad) interface must be handled by the separate 'appletouch'
> > > > driver.  Using HID_QUIRK_IGNORE will make hiddev ignore both
> > > > interfaces, therefore a new quirk flag to ignore only the mouse
> > > > interface is required.
> 
>     The appletouch driver doesn't work properly on the MacBook
> (non-Pro).  It claims the device, and sort of functions, but is
> basically unusable.
> 
>     If this goes in, and blacklists the MacBook touchpad too, Macbook
> users will be unhappy.  I think the MacBook and the -Pro use the same
> IDs, though, which makes a problem for this patch until appletouch is
> fixed on MacBooks.

ok, this patch was now in the mactel svn repository since about a month
and I've never ever seen a report about it failing. Also I asked on the
mailinglist for anyone having problems with that and got no answer,
execpt Joseph, the problem you have been seeing might have been that
one:

http://www.mail-archive.com/mactel-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net/msg00129.html

I would therefore hope it can be applied and thus appear in .20. I am
attaching the version that is now in mactel-svn (which also includes
geyser4 support).

Soeren
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