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From: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC v2] Another approach to IR
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2009 09:54:01 -0800
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On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 03:29:44PM -0200, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> 
> For sure we need to add an EVIOSETPROTO ioctl to allow the driver 
> to change the protocol in runtime.
> 

Mauro,

I think this kind of confuguration belongs to lirc device space,
not input/evdev. This is the same as protocol selection for psmouse
module: while it is normally auto-detected we have sysfs attribute to
force one or another and it is tied to serio device, not input
device.

-- 
Dmitry