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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Message-ID: <m31vjm5o76.fsf@intrepid.localdomain>
Date:	Wed, 25 Nov 2009 21:44:45 +0100
From:	Krzysztof Halasa <khc@...waw.pl>
To:	Jarod Wilson <jarod@...sonet.com>
Cc:	lirc@...telmus.de (Christoph Bartelmus), 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, mchehab@...hat.com, 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

Jarod Wilson <jarod@...sonet.com> writes:

> Took me a minute to figure out exactly what you were talking about.
> You're referring to the current in-kernel decoding done on an ad-hoc
> basis for assorted remotes bundled with capture devices, correct?

Yes.

> Well, is there any reason most of those drivers with
> currently-in-kernel-but-badly-broken decoding can't be converted to
> use the lirc interface if its merged into the kernel?

For many of them "lirc mode" can be easily _added_.
-- 
Krzysztof Halasa
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