linux-kernel - Cleaning up the USBHID's blacklist.

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Date:	Tue, 31 Jul 2007 23:24:05 +0200
From:	Chr <chunkeey@....de>
To:	Jiri Kosina <jikos@...os.cz>
Cc:	linux-input@...ey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-usb-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net
Subject: Cleaning up the USBHID's blacklist.

On Tuesday, 31. July 2007, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Jul 2007, Chr wrote:
> 
> > Ok, found it " hid_blacklist is alphabetically sorted blacklist by quirk 
> > type. " But is there a Order for the bitfields? e.g
> > shouldn't: hid-quriks.c (line 439, 440)
> > { USB_VENDOR_ID_APPLE, USB_DEVICE_ID_APPLE_FOUNTAIN_ANSI, 
> > HID_QUIRK_POWERBOOK_HAS_FN | HID_QUIRK_IGNORE_MOUSE } 
> > be:
> > {..., ..., HID_QUIRK_IGNORE_MOUSE | HID_QUIRK_POWERBOOK_HAS_FN }
> 
> This could be a possible cleanup for hid_blacklist[], if you are going to 
> make a patch I will happily accept it.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
Ok! I'll make a patch..

But I have one (final?) question. Since I am sometimes stuck to 80x25 console...
 can we alphabetically sort the blacklist by the Vendor (the first field), instead of the quirk field(last field)?
Or is there a technical/theoretical reason behind it?   

Thanks,
	Chr.
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