Support IR remote for MSI TV Anywhere Plus tuner card

This patch is upstream now as commit ba340b40a5f65261731583f67d7ec8cafbf5cfaa.

Is it possible to install a package that will incorporate this change into Intrepid?

It's probably possible to make such a package, or add a version of the driver with the fix to linux-backports-modules-intrepid. But first I'm going to see if this qualifies for a stable release update. If so, the fix will simply go in as a kernel update.

Here's the patch cherry-picked from upstream. The only difference picked up by that is the removal of an unused variable.

This looks ok, although we concentrate hardware coverage improvements to LTSes usually.

Tim, can you please cherrypick this or reassign to someone else? (Or "wontfix" if it is too intrusive). Thanks!

I can also backport and test this for Hardy's kernel if desired.

SRU Justification

Impact: Add support for an infra-red remote controller.

Patch Description: Backported from commit ba340b40a5f65261731583f67d7ec8cafbf5cfaa upstream.

Patch: http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/ubuntu-intrepid.git;a=commit;h=39b4c23c6f12e43a5074a9aa69c51027659b698c

Test Case: See bug description

Accepted linux into intrepid-proposed, please test and give feedback here. Please see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

This bug was fixed in the package linux - 2.6.27-11.25

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linux (2.6.27-11.25) intrepid-proposed; urgency=low

  [ Jeff Layton ]

  * SAUCE: cifs: make sure we allocate enough storage for socket address
    - LP: #318565

linux (2.6.27-11.24) intrepid-proposed; urgency=low

  [ Stefan Bader ]

  * Revert "SAUCE: don't use buggy _BCL/_BCM/_BQC for backlight control"
    - LP: #311716
  * SAUCE: acpi: Hack to enable video and vendor backlight implementations
    - LP: #311716
  * SAUCE: Force vendor backlight control on ThinkPad T61
    - LP: #311716

  [ Upstream Kernel Changes ]

  * Revert "thinkpad_acpi: fingers off backlight if video.ko is serving
    this functionality"
    - LP: #311716

linux (2.6.27-11.23) intrepid-proposed; urgency=low

  [ Andy Whitcroft ]

  * SAUCE: don't use buggy _BCL/_BCM/_BQC for backlight control
    - LP: #311716, #314119

  [ Jim Lieb ]

  * SAUCE: atl2: add tx bytes statistic
    - LP: #268622

  [ Upstream Kernel Changes ]

  * i915: Save/restore MCHBAR_RENDER_STANDBY on GM965/GM45
    - LP: #276943

linux (2.6.27-11.22) intrepid-proposed; urgency=low

  [ Andy Whitcroft ]

  * Revert "synchronise our linux-libc-dev with the kernel userspace
    headers". It was causing regressions.
    - LP: #300803

  [ Brian Rogers ]

  * SAUCE: Add support for MSI TV@nywhere Plus remote
    - LP: #281647

  [ Tim Gardner ]

  * SAUCE: Dell laptop digital mic does not work, PCI 1028:0271
    - LP: #309508

  [ Upstream Kernel Changes ]

  * Revert "sched_clock: prevent scd->clock from moving backwards"
  * AMD IOMMU: enable device isolation per default
  * bonding: fix miimon failure counter
  * x86 Fix VMI crash on boot in 2.6.28-rc8
  * libata: fix Seagate NCQ+FLUSH blacklist
  * e1000e: fix double release of mutex
  * can: Fix CAN_(EFF|RTR)_FLAG handling in can_filter
  * can: omit received RTR frames for single ID filter lists
  * iwlwifi: clean key table in iwl_clear_stations_table function
  * net: eliminate warning from NETIF_F_UFO on bridge
  * unicode table for cp437
  * console ASCII glyph 1:1 mapping
  * key: fix setkey(8) policy set breakage
  * firewire: fw-ohci: fix IOMMU resource exhaustion
  * ieee1394: add quirk fix for Freecom HDD
  * SUNRPC: Fix a performance regression in the RPC authentication code
  * b1isa: fix b1isa_exit() to really remove registered capi controllers
  * macfb: Do not overflow fb_fix_screeninfo.id
  * setup_per_zone_pages_min(): take zone->lock instead of zone->lru_lock
  * xilinx_hwicap: remove improper wording in license statement
  * Linux 2.6.27.10 except for "iwlagn: fix RX skb alignment". Besides causing
    an ABI bump it only applies to machines using > 4K page size (such as PowerPC).
    Pick this one up on the next ABI bumping upload.
    - LP: #309731

linux (2.6.27-11.21) intrepid-proposed; urgency=low

  [ Andy Whitcroft ]

  * synchronise our linux-libc-dev with the kernel userspace headers
    - LP: #300803

  [ Jim Lieb ]

  * SAUCE: [PATCH 1/1] USB: Unusual devs patch for Nokia 5610
    - LP: #287701

  [ Michael Krufky ]

  * sms1xxx: use new firmware for Hauppauge WinTV MiniStick
    - LP: #299671
  * sms1xxx: add autodetection support for Hauppa...

Also fixed in 2.6.28, where it's included upstream.