Re: Are multiple IR-receivers and/or multiple serial ports supported

[<col...@hi...>]

Hi!

Blars Blarson "bl...@bl..." wrote:

[...]
>> If the answer to the above is no, then is it possible to use a second
>>  serial port for the second receiver?
>
> This is not trivial with the current driver code.  This realy should
> be rewritten to allow multiple lirc_serial ports on one system.

Do we really need this?

We are currently thinking (Manuel actually has already started) about a  
clean-up of the LIRC kernel interface and one major design decision will  
be if we really need a major number or if a misc-minor will be sufficient  
for the kernel drivers. In the latter case you will always be restricted  
to at most one infrared receiver per system. Currently I'm not really  
conviced that for such kind of interface that the infrared remote control  
is, you will really need several receivers.

Can anybody give good examples that will justify the need for several  
receivers per system.

Christoph