linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] Should we create a raw input interface for IR's ? - Was: Re: [PATCH 1/3 v2] lirc core device driver infrastructure

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Date:	Thu, 26 Nov 2009 21:28:14 +0100
From:	Krzysztof Halasa <khc@...waw.pl>
To:	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...hat.com>
Cc:	Christoph Bartelmus <lirc@...telmus.de>, jarod@...sonet.com,
	awalls@...ix.net, dmitry.torokhov@...il.com, j@...nau.net,
	jarod@...hat.com, linux-input@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-media@...r.kernel.org,
	superm1@...ntu.com
Subject: Re: [RFC] Should we create a raw input interface for IR's ? - Was: Re: [PATCH 1/3 v2] lirc core device driver infrastructure

Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...hat.com> writes:

> The removal of the existing keymaps from kernel depends on having an
> application
> to be called from udev to load the proper keymaps when a device is probed.
>
> After having it for a while, we should deprecate the in-kernel keymaps
> and move them to userspace.

Sounds like a plan.

> I also think that it is important to remove the 7 bits limitation from
> all drivers
> and re-generate the keymaps, since they'll change after it.

I think the existing space/mark media drivers need to be reworked
completely.
-- 
Krzysztof Halasa
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