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: <4B0E3EA4.7000003@redhat.com>
Date:	Thu, 26 Nov 2009 09:39:00 +0100
From:	Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@...hat.com>
To:	Christoph Bartelmus <lirc@...telmus.de>
CC:	awalls@...ix.net, dheitmueller@...nellabs.com,
	dmitry.torokhov@...il.com, 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,
	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

On 11/26/09 08:28, Christoph Bartelmus wrote:
> Hi Gerd,
>
> on 26 Nov 09 at 00:22, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> [...]
>>> To sum it up: I don't think this information will be useful at all for
>>> lircd or anyone else.
> [...]
>> I know that lircd does matching instead of decoding, which allows to
>> handle unknown encodings.  Thats why I think there will always be cases
>> which only lircd will be able to handle (using raw samples).
>>
>> That doesn't make attempts to actually decode the IR samples a useless
>> exercise though ;)
>
> Well, in my opinion it is kind of useless. I don't see any use case or any
> demand for passing this kind of information to userspace, at least in the
> LIRC context.
> If there's no demand, why bother?

There have been complains about this getting lost somewhere in this 
thread, so it looks like there are people which do care.

cheers,
   Gerd
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