Re: [RFC] Should we create a raw input interface for IR's ? - Was:Re: [PATCH 1/3 v2] lirc core device driver infrastructure

[Gerd Hoffmann]

On 11/26/09 08:28, Christoph Bartelmus wrote:
> Hi Gerd,
>
> on 26 Nov 09 at 00:22, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> [...]
> > > To sum it up: I don't think this information will be useful at all for
> > > lircd or anyone else.
> [...]
> > I know that lircd does matching instead of decoding, which allows to
> > handle unknown encodings.  Thats why I think there will always be cases
> > which only lircd will be able to handle (using raw samples).
> >
> > That doesn't make attempts to actually decode the IR samples a useless
> > exercise though ;)
>
> Well, in my opinion it is kind of useless. I don't see any use case or any
> demand for passing this kind of information to userspace, at least in the
> LIRC context.
> If there's no demand, why bother?

There have been complains about this getting lost somewhere in this 
thread, so it looks like there are people which do care.

cheers,
  Gerd
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