[RFC] driver for xbox IR receiver

[Marko F. <mf...@bm...>]

Hello all,

I want to request a comment of the LIRC developers/maintainers on how to 
proceed with the matter adressed in the subject.

As you might be aware, there has been a first attempt to write such a 
driver a while back, loosely based on lirc_gpio and using lirc-0.6.6. 
This driver is really consisting of two, the hardware part xir, handling 
the USB stuff, and the lirc_dev plugin lirc_xir, handling the lirc data 
input. Being a contribution to the xbox-linux project, the driver is 
currently available from xbox-linux cvs for kernel 2.4.

There had been various requests to port it over to kernel 2.6 which I 
(the current maintainer of lirc_xir/xir) did not adress due to the lack 
of lirc itself for 2.6 (or, well, it's state at the time). In the 
meantime, another xbox-linux contributor (Chris Bainbridge) went ahead 
and adopted the current lirc_atiusb driver to work with the xbox remote. 
This driver is therefore naturally working with lirc-0.7-pre and 2.6. It 
is also, due to being  derived from atiusb, one driver, containing the 
USB as well as the LIRC part.

As to how to continue development of the xbox ir driver for 2.4 and 2.6, 
there is an agreement from the xbox-linux team that the LIRC project 
shall express which solution to prefer (mostly due to the intended 
inclusion in the stock LIRC package once it is accepted as being stable 
enough).

I therefore ask for your opinions wether the monolithic module or the 
coop of hw driver and plugin are the favoured approach, all suggestions 
as well as criticism are welcome.

best regards,
Marko Friedemann

PS. please CC: answers to the xbox-linux-devel list if possible
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