problems with HAL and input devices

[Bill Nottingham]

Bill Nottingham (notting at redhat.com) said: 
> I'm attempting to get my keyboard to work as specified at:
> 
>  http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/quirk/
> 
> In querying HAL, the "Thinkpad Extra Buttons" never appears to show up
> as a property of the device in lshal. Looking at the code, it was looking
> in the wrong place for properties.
> 
> So, I cooked up the attached patch. However, with this change... hal now
> denies that the proper input device exists - it opens it, reads the properties,
> etc... but it never shows up in lshal.

Further debugging yields:

12:29:56.794 [I] device.c:3689: entering; exit_type=0, return_code=1
12:29:56.794 [I] device.c:3700: device removed due to prober fail

What is it about this device that the prober does not like?

Bill