Re: [PATCH] hid: Complete support for the new unibody macbooks

From: Henrik Rydberg
Date: Wed Nov 19 2008 - 17:33:41 EST


Jiri Kosina wrote:
[...]
>>> Yes, I am aware of bcm5974 being dependent in HID driver not claiming
>>> the mouse interface on this hardware.
>>> Dmitry, what are your plans with this bcm5974 patch? 2.6.28 or 2.6.29?
>> 2.6.29 - the driver is in use so I did nto want to touch it after .28
>> merge window closed.
>
> I see. I have already pushed the bits that ignore the mouse interface on
> the hardware in question in HID code. But that should be perfectly fine,
> as as the HID driver can't do anything with that mouse anyway.

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.

Cheers,
Henrik

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