[PATCH v2 0/3] IR: add lirc support to ir-core

[Jarod Wilson <jarod@redhat.com>]

On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 04:50:05PM -0400, Jarod Wilson wrote:
> This patch series adds the core lirc device interface, lirc_dev, and
> an ir-core bridge driver. Currently, only the receive side is wired
> up in the bridge driver, but adding transmit support is up next.
> 
> Currently, adding this code allows any raw IR ir-core device driver to
> pass raw IR out to the lirc userspace, without the driver having to have
> any actual knowledge of lirc -- its just feeding data to another IR
> protocol decoder engine.
> 
> This also (hopefully) makes life easier for any currently out-of-tree
> pure lirc device drivers, as they can count on the lirc core bits being
> present. This is a Good Thing(tm) while we work on porting additional
> lirc device drivers to ir-core, and also makes life easier for users to
> migrate from lirc decoding to in-kernel decoding (where possible) when
> their device's driver gets ported.
> 
> This patchset has been tested with the ir-core mceusb driver, and IR
> receive behaves 100% identical in lirc mode to the old lirc_mceusb.
> 
> [PATCH 1/3] IR: add core lirc device interface
> [PATCH 2/3] IR: add an empty lirc "protocol" keymap
> [PATCH 3/3] IR: add ir-core to lirc interface bridge driver

Version 2 moves a good chunk of ir tx details that are (probably) specific
to providing raw IR data from userspace via lirc into the ir-core lirc
bridge driver, instead of having them in the hardware-specific drivers
themselves. This greatly reduced the complexity of the mceusb driver's ir
tx function, and generalized the tx interface better for a non-lirc tx
implementation.

-- 
Jarod Wilson
jarod@redhat.com