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

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

On Sat, 2009-05-30 at 15:04 -0400, Jon Smirl wrote:
> On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 2:26 PM, Maxim Levitsky <max...@gm...> wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> The point of having keymaps in the kernel is so that all apps can
> share them. X "the Operating System" is doing a bunch of stuff that
> really belongs to the kernel. That is slowly being changed - X doesn't
> scan the PCI bus any more. Input is being worked on. Mode setting is
> migrating to the kernel.
> 
> Those keymaps inside of X can't be used by command line apps because X
> may not be running. That path has led to duplicate keymapping systems.
> 
> Sure we could make a universal keymapping daemon. But that's the
> microkernel vs monolithic kernel argument.
> 
> You can push the entire kernel in to user space - UML has already done
> it. But do you really want to do that?
Lets stop here.
I am not against kernel code. period.
The opposite is true!


Everybody has the right to have its own opinion, I currently think that
IR decoding should be done in userspace, _due_ to pure userspace
drivers.


Best regards,
	Maxim Levitsky