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From: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Infrared Keycode standardization
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 13:17:52 -0700
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On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 06:06:13PM +0100, Peter Brouwer wrote:
> Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
>
> Hi Mauro, All
>
> Would it be an alternative to let lirc do the mapping and just let the 
> driver pass the codes of the remote to the event port.

I don't think that blindly passing IR codes through input layer is a
good idea, for the same reason we don't do that for HID and PS/2
anymore - task of the kernel is to provide unified interface to the
hardware devices instead of letting userspace deal with the raw data
streams.

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Dmitry