From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jon Smirl Subject: Re: [RFC] Should we create a raw input interface for IR's ? - Was: Re: [PATCH 1/3 v2] lirc core device driver infrastructure Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:03:25 -0500 Message-ID: <9e4733910911260803q6f5cd6c0g5006e84f7733dc85@mail.gmail.com> References: <829197380911251020y6f330f15mba32920ac63e97d3@mail.gmail.com> <4B0DA885.7010601@redhat.com> <4B0E9493.1090200@redhat.com> <9e4733910911260748v454d3b0bvcc6bfc86823cdd39@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Return-path: Received: from mail-qy0-f192.google.com ([209.85.221.192]:39695 "EHLO mail-qy0-f192.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751574AbZKZQDX (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:03:23 -0500 In-Reply-To: <9e4733910911260748v454d3b0bvcc6bfc86823cdd39@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-input-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-input@vger.kernel.org To: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Cc: Gerd Hoffmann , Devin Heitmueller , Jarod Wilson , Krzysztof Halasa , Christoph Bartelmus , awalls@radix.net, dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com, j@jannau.net, jarod@redhat.com, linux-input@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-media@vger.kernel.org, superm1@ubuntu.com BTW, we used to have device specific user space interfaces for mouse and keyboard. These caused all sort of problems. A lot of work went into unifying them under evdev. It will be years until the old, messed up interfaces can be totally removed. I'm not in favor of repeating the problems with a device specific user space interface for IR. I believe all new input devices should implement the evdev framework. -- Jon Smirl jonsmirl@gmail.com