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Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 10:30:54 -0400
From: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
To: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, Jarod Wilson <jwilson@redhat.com>,
       Ville Syrj?l? <syrjala@sci.fi>, Janne Grunau <j@jannau.net>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Christoph Bartelmus <lirc@bartelmus.de>,
       lirc-list@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/18] lirc driver for the ATI USB RF remote receiver
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On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 09:37:19AM -0400, Jon Smirl wrote:
> A second issue is that some IR drivers are completely in user space.
> Is there a mechanism for these user space drivers to send events down
> into the input layer? These events would then get queued with the
> other kernel generated events and be delivered to consuming apps in
> order.
> 

Uinput driver (/dev/uinput, drivers/input/misc/uinput.c) can be used to
inject events into kernel for subsequent distribution through normal
interfaces (console, evdev, etc).

-- 
Dmitry