Re: drop lircd!

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

Hi!

Gerd Knorr "kr...@by..." wrote:
[...]
> This is a proof-of-concept port of a lirc infrared remote driver to
> the 2.6 kernel input layer.  I picked lirc_i2c.c, simply because I
> have hardware to play with for that one.  For now it works with
> Hauppauge WinTV cards only.

Yes, it's nice. But it will _only_ work for TV cards.
All other flavours of hardware need decoding of IR signals in software
or read their signals from some tty.
Both is done by lircd in user space, not kernel space. lircd has also  
many more features that you don't want to simply throw overboard.

So what do we gain? Just another means to confuse users by yet another
alternative to configure their IR hardware.

No, thanks.

Christoph