Messages in this thread | | | From | Paul Collins <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] [RESEND] fix HID quirks for aluminium apple wireless keyboards | Date | Fri, 13 Jun 2008 02:55:43 +1200 |
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"Phil Endecott" <phil_tuhck_endecott@chezphil.org> 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
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