From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756699AbYIIT7d (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Sep 2008 15:59:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753714AbYIIT7Z (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Sep 2008 15:59:25 -0400 Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:33237 "EHLO mx2.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753370AbYIIT7Y (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Sep 2008 15:59:24 -0400 From: Jarod Wilson Organization: Red Hat, Inc. To: "Stefan Lippers-Hollmann" , Janne Grunau Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/18] lirc serial port receiver/transmitter device driver Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2008 15:56:44 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.10.1 (Linux/2.6.25.16-1.fc10.x86_64; KDE/4.1.1; x86_64; ; ) Cc: Jonathan Corbet , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Christoph Bartelmus References: <1220933164-10160-1-git-send-email-jwilson@redhat.com> <20080909101422.329bd351@bike.lwn.net> <200809092151.18332.s.L-H@gmx.de> In-Reply-To: <200809092151.18332.s.L-H@gmx.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200809091556.44998.jwilson@redhat.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tuesday 09 September 2008 15:51:12 Stefan Lippers-Hollmann wrote: > Hi > > On Dienstag, 9. September 2008, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > > > +config LIRC_SERIAL > > > + tristate "Homebrew Serial Port Receiver" > > > + default n > > > + depends on LIRC_DEV > > > + help > > > + Driver for Homebrew Serial Port Receivers > > > > What receivers might these be? Do any actually exist? > > [...] > > This might actually be the most common setup, as it is very easy to > build[1] with minimal soldering skills and has also been used by various > vendors (older models of the TechniSat SkyStar2 DVB-S budget card, to name > just one example; it is only slowly being replaced by alternative means, > as serial ports are becoming rare on newer systems. > > Regards > Stefan Lippers-Hollmann > > [1] http://www.lirc.org/receivers.html One frequently-used source of pre-built serial receivers (and transmitters) here in the US is http://irblaster.info/. Hey, that actually just reminded me... I think I *do* have a serial IR receiver laying about somewhere that came w/one of my TechniSat SkyStar HD-5000 cards... Thank you, Stefan! ;) -- Jarod Wilson jarod@redhat.com