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

[Gerd Hoffmann]

  Hi,

> A current related problem is that i2c based devices can only be bound to
> only one of ir-kbd-i2c *or* lirc_i2c *or* lirc_zilog at any one time.
> Currently it is somewhat up to the bridge driver which binding is
> preferred.  Discussion about this for the pvrusb2 module had the biggest
> email churn IIRC.

Once lirc_dev is merged you can easily fix this:  You'll have *one* 
driver which supports *both* evdev and lirc interfaces.  If lircd opens 
the lirc interface raw data will be sent there, keystrokes come in via 
uinput.  Otherwise keystrokes are send directly via evdev.  Problem solved.

cheers,
  Gerd

PS:  Not sure this actually makes sense for the i2c case, as far I know
     these do decoding in hardware and don't provide access to the raw
     samples, so killing the in-kernel IR limits to make ir-kbd-i2c
     being on par with lirc_i2c might be more useful in this case.

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