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: <m3r5rlupcb.fsf@intrepid.localdomain>
Date:	Thu, 26 Nov 2009 19:13:08 +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:

> 1) the developer that adds the hardware also adds the IR code. He has
> the hardware and the IR for testing, so it means a faster development
> cycle than waiting for someone else with the same hardware and IR to
> recode it on some other place. You should remember that not all
> developers use lirc;

It's fine, but please - no keymaps in the kernel (except for fixed
receivers, i.e. the ones which can only work with their own dedicated
remote, and which don't pass RC5/etc. code).

The existing keymaps (those which can be used with lirc) have to be
moved to userspace as well.
-- 
Krzysztof Halasa
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