Re: lirc, sysfs and device entry

[<li...@ba...>]

Hi!

Paul Bender "peb...@sa..." wrote:
[...]
>> The lirc kernel modules creates a directory in the sys file system for
>> each lirc device (/sys/class/lirc/lirc*). However, unlike entries for
>> many other types of devices, this directory does not contain a symbolic
>> link to the underlying device. Is there some reason for this?
[...]
> Well, I decided to create a patch against 0.8.1 that adds the device link.
[...]
> In order to get the device pointer to lirc_class_device_create, I
> changed the lirc_register_plugin function sot that the device pointer is
> passed in the second argument. I thought about adding it to the
> lirc_plugin structure instead. Including it in the structure might be a
> better choice.

Could you please rewrite the patch to add the pointer to the lirc_plugin  
structure? I don't want to change the lirc_dev interface. There are 3rd  
party drivers that use it.

Thanks,

Christoph