Comment 6 for bug 204960

Michael,

Can you put together a patch to tell hald-addon-input service to ignore this
for Ari to try?

Thanks

On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 9:34 AM, laga <email address hidden> wrote:

> Mario Limonciello schrieb:
> > Hi Ari:
> > Given that it can't grab a lock on the device, this probably is because
> the hald-addon-input service has the tight grip on it.
> >
> > Perusing the man page for hal, I don't see an easy way to turn this off.
> > If you find a scriptable way to do so, we'd be glad to adapt.
> >
> > ** Changed in: lirc (Ubuntu)
> > Importance: Undecided => Wishlist
> > Status: New => Incomplete
> >
> >
> Mario,
>
> it's possible to tell HAL to ignore certain devices. Here's what we do
> to tell HAL to ignore network interfaces (found on Cardoe's blog):
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <deviceinfo version="0.2">
> <device>
> <match key="net.interface" exists="true">
> <merge key="info.ignore" type="bool">true</merge>
> </match>
> </device>
> </deviceinfo>
>
>
> That file goes into usr/share/hal/fdi/preprobe/20thirdparty/. Maybe we
> can do something similar for remotes, eg by expanding the hwdb to
> contain a field which triggers a remote-specific HAL rule.. Or at least
> document the ability to ignore devices somewhere.
>
> --
> [Hardy] Lirc devinput (linux-input-layer) broken
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/204960
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Mario Limonciello
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