Re: LIRC namespace standardization

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Hi!

Arnaud Quette "aqu...@gm..." wrote:
> this is the continuation of a thread started a long time ago (in a
> galaxy not so far away ;) ):
> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=10666620
>
> This time, I will address each point separately, starting with the key
> namespace. Also, this time I have some help (thanks to Loic Dardant),
> and another interest
> (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MediaCenter/RemoteSupport).
>
> Well, the LIRC namespace issue is well known:
> - there is no common namespace to describe the keys in lircd.conf files.

I still think that we should use the namespace defined in
/usr/include/linux/input.h
That would enable lircd to automatically generate input events, which  
has been discussed here recently.

[...]
> 2) case: upper, lower or mixed (lower with upper for the first letter).
> ie: FORWARD, forward, Forward

Button name handling in LIRC ignores case: I don't care.

[...]
> 4) Some remote have both <button>_UP and <button>_DOWN signals.
> What to do with these. Duplicate the signal, or keep only one (the down
> one)?

There are very few remotes with this feature. I would probably remove  
the _DOWN from button names and keep the _UP.

Christoph