Re: IR raw input is not sutable for input system

From: Maxim Levitsky
Date: Wed Nov 25 2009 - 17:52:21 EST


On Wed, 2009-11-25 at 23:30 +0100, Krzysztof Halasa wrote:
> Sean Young <sean@xxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > Absolutely. There are a number of use cases when you want access to the
> > space-pulse (i.e. IR) information.
>
> I think nobody proposes otherwise (except for devices which can't pass
> this info).

I think we were taking about such devices.

I have no objection that devices that *do* decode the protocol, they
should be handled inside kernel.

But devices that send raw pulse/space data should be handled in lirc
that will feed the data back to the kernel via uinput.

Best regards,
Maxim Levitsky

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