Re: [RFC] Infrared Keycode standardization

[Alistair Buxton <a.j.buxton@gmail.com>]

2009/8/28 Peter Brouwer <pb.maillists@googlemail.com>:
>
> Would like to add one more dimension to the discussion.
>
> The situation of having multiple DVB type boards in one system.
>
> Using one remote would be enough to control the system. So we should have a
> mechanism/kernel config option, to enable/disable an IR device on a board.
> For multiple boards of the same type, enable the first and disable any
> subsequently detected boards.

Don't forget that completely different boards can have identical
remotes. For example the RTL2831 driver has an almost identical copy
of dvb-usb IR code in it. See here for in depth explanation and patch
that makes it use dvb-usb instead:
http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/38794/

Now I'm not really familiar with frontends and tuners so it may be
that the RTL driver should be reimplemented within dvb-usb instead,
but if it can't be it would be nice if that IR code could be shared
without pulling in all the rest of dvb-usb modules too. I'm told that
the excessive code duplication is the reason this driver isn't in
mainline yet - I've been using it with no problems for over two years
now.

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Alistair Buxton
a.j.buxton@gmail.com