From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jarod Wilson Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/8] IR: extend MCE keymap. Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 09:18:29 -0400 Message-ID: <20100910131829.GD13554@redhat.com> References: <1283808373-27876-1-git-send-email-maximlevitsky@gmail.com> <1283808373-27876-6-git-send-email-maximlevitsky@gmail.com> <1284079254.4828.6.camel@maxim-laptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:12625 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753673Ab0IJNSn (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Sep 2010 09:18:43 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-input-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-input@vger.kernel.org To: David =?iso-8859-1?Q?H=E4rdeman?= Cc: Jarod Wilson , Maxim Levitsky , lirc-list@lists.sourceforge.net, mchehab@infradead.org, linux-input@vger.kernel.org, linux-media@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 10:27:02AM +0200, David H=E4rdeman wrote: > On Fri, September 10, 2010 03:37, Jarod Wilson wrote: > > I think for mythtv, we're going to end up having a daemon process w= ith > > elevated privs that reads directly from input devices to get around > > this annoyance, until such time as the annoyance is gone. >=20 > A similar approach could work for XBMC since it already has input plu= gins > (e.g. for using a Nintendo Wii controller, etc). While attempting to drift off to sleep last night, it occurred to me th= at lircd already has support for attaching to input devices, so it might b= e an option to extend lircd and the lirc client library to have a "pass r= aw keycodes" mode. Both xmbc and mythtv already have options to build in l= irc client support, so it'd just be minor extension of its use in both case= s, at least in theory... --=20 Jarod Wilson jarod@redhat.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-input" = in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:12625 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753673Ab0IJNSn (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Sep 2010 09:18:43 -0400 Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 09:18:29 -0400 From: Jarod Wilson To: David =?iso-8859-1?Q?H=E4rdeman?= Cc: Jarod Wilson , Maxim Levitsky , lirc-list@lists.sourceforge.net, mchehab@infradead.org, linux-input@vger.kernel.org, linux-media@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/8] IR: extend MCE keymap. Message-ID: <20100910131829.GD13554@redhat.com> References: <1283808373-27876-1-git-send-email-maximlevitsky@gmail.com> <1283808373-27876-6-git-send-email-maximlevitsky@gmail.com> <1284079254.4828.6.camel@maxim-laptop> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: List-ID: Sender: Mauro Carvalho Chehab On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 10:27:02AM +0200, David Härdeman wrote: > On Fri, September 10, 2010 03:37, Jarod Wilson wrote: > > I think for mythtv, we're going to end up having a daemon process with > > elevated privs that reads directly from input devices to get around > > this annoyance, until such time as the annoyance is gone. > > A similar approach could work for XBMC since it already has input plugins > (e.g. for using a Nintendo Wii controller, etc). While attempting to drift off to sleep last night, it occurred to me that lircd already has support for attaching to input devices, so it might be an option to extend lircd and the lirc client library to have a "pass raw keycodes" mode. Both xmbc and mythtv already have options to build in lirc client support, so it'd just be minor extension of its use in both cases, at least in theory... -- Jarod Wilson jarod@redhat.com