Re: Status of lirc. should I create new reciever driver against it?

[Maxim L. <max...@gm...>]

On Sat, 2009-05-30 at 14:10 -0400, Jon Smirl wrote:
> On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 2:01 PM, Maxim Levitsky <max...@gm...> wrote:
> 
> 
> >> Think of it this way: why is IR special? Isn't it just another input
> >> method like mouse, keyboard, joystick, touchpad, etc. If it is not
> >> special, why can't the drivers be implemented in-kernel like all of
> >> the other Linux input drivers? If you flip this around, why shouldn't
> >> all of the mouse, keyboard, joystick, touchpad, etc drivers be removed
> >> from the kernel and reimplemented in user space?
> > These drivers are very different.
> > They know the hardware very well, they don't have to use user supplied
> > config for their job. They fit perfectly the kernel.
> 
> Checkout keyboard translation tables:
> man loadkeys
Well, this is for console, and ugly.

I had a lot of fight with kernel keymaps btw.
I have even wrote my own keymap.
I don't use linux console anymore.


Best regards,
	Maxim Levitsky