Re: Fwd: [linux-usb-devel] USB IR receivers and evdev

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Hi Jon,

on 15 Feb 07 at 00:34, you wrote:
[...]
>> I'm only a bit concerned about scalability. It's easily possible to have
>> hundreds of remote control definitions in your lircd.conf. Creating a
>> device node for each of them will be very inefficient.

> I have about ten remotes and I thought that was way too many. How can
> someone live with hundreds?

It is common practice to download the remote package from the lirc  
homepage and just use all of them or just all of one brand to find out  
which config file may support the remote control you have best without  
having to create a new config file.

Also I know that some people in TV repair shops would use lirc to  
control some TV sets or other equipment with lirc where the remote  
control is not available. They would just use a huge lircd.conf  
containing all available configs and send the commands they need at that  
moment.

[...]
>> I only own a small fraction of the devices supported by LIRC myself. I
>> could take over one or two drivers, but definitely not all of them.

> There are sixteen devices drivers in the lirc repo, are maintainers
> still around for all of them?

Only for some. Usually I would make updates for new kernel versions  
myself.

[...]
> What about the rest of these?
>
[...]
> lirc_parallel
[...]
> lirc_streamzap

I could take over the two above.

Christoph