linux-kernel - Re: [RFC v2] Another approach to IR

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Date:	Tue, 1 Dec 2009 14:27:35 -0500
From:	Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@...il.com>
To:	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...hat.com>
Cc:	Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>,
	Devin Heitmueller <dheitmueller@...nellabs.com>,
	Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@...il.com>, awalls@...ix.net,
	j@...nau.net, jarod@...hat.com, jarod@...sonet.com, khc@...waw.pl,
	linux-input@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-media@...r.kernel.org, lirc-list@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	superm1@...ntu.com, Christoph Bartelmus <lirc@...telmus.de>
Subject: Re: [RFC v2] Another approach to IR

On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 2:00 PM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab
<mchehab@...hat.com> wrote:
> Due to the lack of an API for it, each driver has their own way to handle the
> protocols, but basically, on almost all drivers, even supporting different protocols,
> the driver limits the usage of just the protocol provided by the shipped remote.
>
> To solve this, we really need to extend evdev API to do 3 things: enumberate the
> supported protocols, get the current protocol(s), and select the protocol(s) that
> will be used by a newer table.

evdev capabilities bits can support enumerating the supported
protocols. I'm not sure if you can write those bits back into evdev to
turn a feature off/on. If not its something that could be added to
evdev.

I agree that there is no consistency in the existing driver implementations.

-- 
Jon Smirl
jonsmirl@...il.com
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