Re: [RFC] What are the goals for the architecture of an in-kernel IR system?

From: Christoph Bartelmus
Date: Sun Nov 29 2009 - 14:50:23 EST


Hi,

on 29 Nov 09 at 14:16, Jon Smirl wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 2:04 PM, Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Jon is asking for an architecture discussion, y'know, with use cases.
[...]
> So we're just back to the status quo of last year which is to do
> nothing except some minor clean up.
>
> We'll be back here again next year repeating this until IR gets
> redesigned into something fairly invisible like keyboard and mouse
> drivers.

Last year everyone complained that LIRC does not support evdev - so I
added support for evdev.

This year everyone complains that LIRC is not plug'n'play - we'll fix that
'til next year.

There's progress. ;-)

Christoph
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