From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753183AbYKSWdk (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:33:40 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751187AbYKSWdc (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:33:32 -0500 Received: from ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.213]:38086 "EHLO ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750969AbYKSWdb (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:33:31 -0500 Message-ID: <49249431.9040104@euromail.se> Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:33:21 +0100 From: Henrik Rydberg User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (X11/20080925) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jiri Kosina CC: Dmitry Torokhov , Andrew Morton , linux-input@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] hid: Complete support for the new unibody macbooks References: <49109C91.6090207@euromail.se> <4919C979.3000501@euromail.se> <20081119113753.ZZRA012@mailhub.coreip.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Originating-IP: 83.248.192.132 X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1L2vc1-0004mf-6x. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net 1L2vc1-0004mf-6x ce363f0aee863697718075461aa9e202 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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