linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] What are the goals for the architecture of an in-kernel IR system?

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Message-ID: <20091208172543.GA14271@core.coreip.homeip.net>
Date:	Tue, 8 Dec 2009 09:25:43 -0800
From:	Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>
To:	Krzysztof Halasa <khc@...waw.pl>
Cc:	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...hat.com>,
	Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@...il.com>,
	hermann pitton <hermann-pitton@...or.de>,
	Christoph Bartelmus <lirc@...telmus.de>, awalls@...ix.net,
	j@...nau.net, jarod@...hat.com, jarod@...sonet.com,
	kraxel@...hat.com, linux-input@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-media@...r.kernel.org,
	superm1@...ntu.com
Subject: Re: [RFC] What are the goals for the architecture of an in-kernel
	IR  system?

On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 02:57:15PM +0100, Krzysztof Halasa wrote:
> Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com> writes:
> 
> > Why woudl we want to do this? Quite often there is a need for "observer"
> > that maybe does not act on data but allows capturing it. Single-user
> > inetrfaces are PITA.
> 
> Lircd can work as a multiplexer. 

What this has to do with my statement? Did you mean retransmitter of sorts?

Also I may explicitely not want the data stream to be multiplexed...

> IMHO single-open lirc interface is ok,
> though we obviously need simultaneous operation of in-kernel decoders.

Why is the distinction?

-- 
Dmitry
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