From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jon Smirl Subject: Re: [RFC] What are the goals for the architecture of an in-kernel IR system? Date: Sat, 28 Nov 2009 12:06:48 -0500 Message-ID: <9e4733910911280906if1191a1jd3d055e8b781e45c@mail.gmail.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Return-path: Received: from mail-qy0-f194.google.com ([209.85.221.194]:46299 "EHLO mail-qy0-f194.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751785AbZK1RGm (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Nov 2009 12:06:42 -0500 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-input-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-input@vger.kernel.org To: Christoph Bartelmus Cc: khc@pm.waw.pl, awalls@radix.net, dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com, j@jannau.net, jarod@redhat.com, jarod@wilsonet.com, linux-input@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-media@vger.kernel.org, maximlevitsky@gmail.com, mchehab@redhat.com, stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de, superm1@ubuntu.com On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 11:47 AM, Christoph Bartelmus wrote: > @Maxim: I think Mauro is right. We need to find an approach that makes > everybody happy. We should take the time now to discuss all the > possibilities and choose the best solution. LIRC has lived so long outside > the kernel, that we can wait another couple of weeks/months until we > agreed on something which will be a stable API hopefully for many years to > come. Please do this. That's why I started this thread off with goals for the implementation. After we settle on a set of goals we can move on to how to implement those goals. The end result is almost certainly going to combine aspects from all of the various proposals and the LIRC code base is likely to be the largest contributor. There are two very basic things that we need to reach consensus on first. 1) Unification with mouse/keyboard in evdev - put IR on equal footing. 2) Specific tools (xmodmap, setkeycodes, etc or the LIRC ones) or generic tools (ls, mkdir, echo) for configuration Once consensus is reached in those two areas everything else should be much easier. -- Jon Smirl jonsmirl@gmail.com