Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754873AbYFLPA1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jun 2008 11:00:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752205AbYFLPAP (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jun 2008 11:00:15 -0400 Received: from jenny.ondioline.org ([66.220.1.122]:36486 "EHLO jenny.ondioline.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752071AbYFLPAN (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jun 2008 11:00:13 -0400 From: Paul Collins To: "Phil Endecott" Cc: , , , , Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RESEND] fix HID quirks for aluminium apple wireless keyboards References: <874p7ylsj0.fsf@burly.wgtn.ondioline.org> <1213276636216@dmwebmail.dmwebmail.chezphil.org> Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 02:55:43 +1200 In-Reply-To: <1213276636216@dmwebmail.dmwebmail.chezphil.org> (Phil Endecott's message of "Thu, 12 Jun 2008 14:17:16 +0100") Message-ID: <87prqmk8i8.fsf@burly.wgtn.ondioline.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1685 Lines: 41 "Phil Endecott" writes: > Did you see my messages about this a few weeks ago? > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.input/4984 Alas, no! That would have been very helpful. > I didn't post a patch because I believe that this stuff has all moved > as a result of Jiri Slaby's patch "HID: move apple quirks" posted to > linux-input on 2008-05-16. One of us should prepare a patch against > the tree after that patch. I'm happy to do this, although the only tree I track closely is Linus's. > Do you know what happens if you have a USB bluetooth dongle with HID > proxy mode? My assumption was that the vendor and product IDs from > the keyboard would then appear to the kernel as USB IDs. If this is > true, then you should keep the existing entries for these devices in > the USB quirks tables. Does anyone know if HID proxy dongles actually > do this? In any case, leaving the existing entries in the USB quirks > table can't do any harm. Hmm, no idea. Absent confirmation I guess I'll drop the USB HID changes to be on the safe side. > I wrote this up at http://chezphil.org/apple-alu-bluetooth-kb-linux/ > and I'll just post that URL again to help the search engines... Nice writeup! Small correction: when the quirk is active, you can generate forward delete by pressing Fn-backspace. -- Paul Collins Wellington, New Zealand Dag vijandelijk luchtschip de huismeester is dood -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/