Re: drop lircd!

[Gerd K. <kr...@by...>]

> 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.

You can feed the input layer queue from userspace too, so this isn't a
big problem.  As first step it would be enought to have lircd also
accept /dev/input/event<x> as source for IR input.

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

In the long run a much more flexible and generic way to handle IR input.
Make kernel drivers easier to maintain.  See other reply for the
--verbose version.

  Gerd

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