Please restore appleir module

I see that the appleir module has recently been removed from the 2.6.31 kernel. Please restore it. I can see no reason given for the removal, but I'm guessing that it was because the Apple IR remote is now supposed to work properly with lirc. Unfortunately, this is not the case. There are two major problems: first, it doesn't work out of the box (you have to follow the instructions at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MacBookAir1-1/Karmic) and secondly, having followed those instructions the keys don't work well (no auto-repeat, need to wait a couple of seconds between key presses to register two key presses).

I will now go and file bugs to try to help make lirc work better (and I found of the order of half a dozen different bugs while trying to get this to work), but at this stage in the release cycle it would seem much better to restore the appleir module, which works fine, and try to target lirc support for Lucid instead.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC0: rrt 1582 F.... pulseaudio
 /dev/snd/controlC1: rrt 1582 F.... pulseaudio
CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
Card0.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:0 'Intel'/'HDA Intel at 0x90440000 irq 22'
   Mixer name : 'SigmaTel STAC9221 A1'
   Components : 'HDA:83847680,106b0800,00103601'
   Controls : 18
   Simple ctrls : 10
Card1.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:1 'default'/'C-Media USB Headphone Set at usb-0000:00:1d.2-1, full speed'
   Mixer name : 'USB Mixer'
   Components : 'USB0d8c:000c'
   Controls : 7
   Simple ctrls : 3
Date: Fri Oct 2 10:10:10 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=4e3dfdb3-fce1-4f20-9e8e-2d60d509634c
MachineType: Apple Inc. Macmini2,1
NonfreeKernelModules: uinput vboxnetadp vboxnetflt vboxdrv nls_iso8859_1 nls_cp437 vfat fat arc4 snd_hda_codec_idt ecb snd_usb_audio snd_hda_intel i915 snd_usb_lib snd_hda_codec drm snd_hwdep ath5k usbhid snd_pcm_oss i2c_algo_bit mac80211 sbp2 snd_mixer_oss snd_seq_dummy ath snd_pcm asix pl2303 applesmc snd_seq_oss usbnet video usbserial snd_seq_midi snd_rawmidi iptable_filter led_class intel_agp output lp snd_seq_midi_event ip_tables mii agpgart snd_seq parport snd_timer snd_seq_device input_polldev cfg80211 snd snd_page_alloc btusb x_tables soundcore reiserfs ohci1394 ieee1394 sky2
Package: linux-image-2.6.31-11-generic 2.6.31-11.36
ProcCmdLine: root=UUID=56ee682c-b009-4f6d-b724-108e1e2a4186 ro quiet splash i915.modeset=0
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-11.36-generic
RelatedPackageVersions:
 linux-backports-modules-2.6.31-11-generic N/A
 linux-firmware 1.19
SourcePackage: linux
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-11-generic i686
WifiSyslog:

WpaSupplicantLog:

dmi.bios.date: 06/28/07
dmi.bios.vendor: Apple Inc.
dmi.bios.version: MM21.88Z.009A.B00.0706281359
dmi.board.asset.tag: Base Board Asset Tag
dmi.board.name: Mac-F4208EAA
dmi.board.vendor: Apple Inc.
dmi.board.version: PVT
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: Asset Tag
dmi.chassis.type: 4
dmi.chassis.vendor: Apple Inc.
dmi.chassis.version: Mac-F4208EAA
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAppleInc.:bvrMM21.88Z.009A.B00.0706281359:bd06/28/07:svnAppleInc.:pnMacmini2,1:pvr1.0:rvnAppleInc.:rnMac-F4208EAA:rvrPVT:cvnAppleInc.:ct4:cvrMac-F4208EAA:
dmi.product.name: Macmini2,1
dmi.product.version: 1.0
dmi.sys.vendor: Apple Inc.