Re: RFC about new device ioctl

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Hi!

Roland Mieslinger "rm...@gm..." wrote:
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> to solve the problem described below, I suggest to create a new ioctl
> LIRC_NOTIFY_DECODE. The idea in principle is to give feedback to the
> user about if an IR signal was decoded an put to the queue successfully.
> I don't belive that the provided patch breaks anything.

There might be drivers (havn't checked) that generate some log message  
if an unsupported ioctl is called.
Before doing the ioctl you should check that the driver actually  
supports it.

Christoph