From: Jarod Wilson <jarod@redhat.com>
To: Guus Sliepen <guus@sliepen.org>
Cc: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>, linux-input@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC v2] Another approach to IR
Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:53:54 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B183372.30104@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091203194736.GM2970@sliepen.org>
On 12/3/09 2:47 PM, Guus Sliepen wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Some years ago I wrote a tool called "inputlirc" that translates evdev events
> into LIRC events, to allow remotes that then already used the input system to
> work with LIRC. At the time, lircd itself could do this, but you had to
> "train" it to "decode" evdev bitstreams. Instead, inputlirc uses a fixed
> mapping between evdev names and LIRC key names, so you don't need to train or
> configure anything.
No longer necessary, there's a proper devinput lircd userspace driver
that when paired with an lircd.conf (auto-generated based on
linux/input.h) Just Works.
http://lirc.sourceforge.net/remotes/devinput/lircd.conf.devinput
> It seems that if you want to merge LIRC into the kernel, and have it generate
> standard events,
It already can. If your button names in lircd.conf match button names in
input.h, lircd can reinject the key presses into the input subsystem via
uinput.
--
Jarod Wilson
jarod@redhat.com
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Thread overview: 81+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-12-03 19:47 [RFC v2] Another approach to IR Guus Sliepen
2009-12-03 21:53 ` Jarod Wilson [this message]
2009-12-05 11:23 ` Guus Sliepen
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2009-12-03 18:01 Emmanuel Fusté
2009-12-03 17:56 Emmanuel Fusté
2009-12-03 17:08 Emmanuel Fusté
2009-12-01 15:08 Jon Smirl
2009-12-01 15:08 ` Jon Smirl
2009-12-01 15:47 ` Maxim Levitsky
2009-12-01 16:16 ` Jon Smirl
2009-12-01 17:03 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2009-12-01 17:09 ` Devin Heitmueller
2009-12-01 17:29 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2009-12-01 17:54 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2009-12-01 19:00 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2009-12-01 19:27 ` Jon Smirl
2009-12-01 20:11 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2009-12-01 21:05 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2009-12-02 9:38 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2009-12-02 12:44 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2009-12-02 17:10 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2009-12-02 17:30 ` Jon Smirl
2009-12-02 18:23 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2009-12-02 18:57 ` Jon Smirl
2009-12-02 18:57 ` Jon Smirl
2009-12-02 20:54 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2009-12-02 19:22 ` Jarod Wilson
2009-12-02 19:56 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2009-12-02 20:04 ` Jarod Wilson
2009-12-02 20:14 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2009-12-02 20:23 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2009-12-02 20:53 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2009-12-02 21:13 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2009-12-03 16:03 ` Ferenc Wagner
2009-12-03 16:33 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2009-12-03 16:50 ` Jon Smirl
2009-12-03 16:50 ` Jon Smirl
2009-12-03 17:19 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2009-12-03 17:31 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2009-12-04 16:11 ` Ferenc Wagner
2009-12-02 20:42 ` Jarod Wilson
2009-12-02 20:48 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2009-12-02 20:57 ` Jarod Wilson
2009-12-02 21:12 ` Trent Piepho
2009-12-02 21:28 ` Jarod Wilson
2009-12-02 21:40 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2009-12-03 18:06 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2009-12-03 1:19 ` Andy Walls
2009-12-03 2:27 ` hermann pitton
2009-12-03 0:20 ` Jon Smirl
2009-12-03 2:22 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2009-12-03 5:08 ` Jon Smirl
2009-12-03 5:08 ` Jon Smirl
2009-12-03 11:09 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2009-12-03 18:18 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2009-12-03 20:54 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2009-12-03 2:48 ` Trent Piepho
2009-12-03 4:13 ` Jarod Wilson
2009-12-03 5:18 ` Jon Smirl
2009-12-03 5:18 ` Jon Smirl
2009-12-03 11:20 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2009-12-03 19:48 ` alhaz
2009-12-02 19:33 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2009-12-02 19:50 ` Jon Smirl
2009-12-02 19:58 ` Jon Smirl
2009-12-02 20:47 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2009-12-02 19:55 ` Jarod Wilson
2009-12-03 1:02 ` Andy Walls
2009-12-03 10:00 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2009-12-03 12:02 ` Andy Walls
2009-12-03 11:09 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2009-12-02 20:01 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2009-12-02 15:37 ` Jon Smirl
2009-12-02 15:37 ` Jon Smirl
2009-12-02 17:00 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2009-12-02 11:26 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2009-12-02 12:45 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2009-12-01 17:35 ` Patrick Boettcher
2009-12-01 17:41 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2009-12-01 18:19 ` Jon Smirl
2009-12-01 17:37 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
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