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 12:37:40 -0500 Message-ID: <9e4733910911280937k37551b38g90f4a60b73665853@mail.gmail.com> References: <9e4733910911280906if1191a1jd3d055e8b781e45c@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: Received: from qw-out-2122.google.com ([74.125.92.26]:45524 "EHLO qw-out-2122.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752878AbZK1Rhi convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Nov 2009 12:37:38 -0500 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-input-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-input@vger.kernel.org To: Krzysztof Halasa Cc: Christoph Bartelmus , 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 12:35 PM, Krzysztof Halasa wrot= e: > Jon Smirl writes: > >> There are two very basic things that we need to reach consensus on f= irst. >> >> 1) Unification with mouse/keyboard in evdev - put IR on equal footin= g. >> 2) Specific tools (xmodmap, setkeycodes, etc or the LIRC ones) or >> generic tools (ls, mkdir, echo) for configuration > > I think we can do this gradually: > 1. Merging the lirc drivers. The only stable thing needed is lirc > =A0 interface. Doing that locks in a user space API that needs to be supported forever. We need to think this API through before locking it in. > 2. Changing IR input layer interface ("media" drivers and adding to l= irc > =A0 drivers). > -- > Krzysztof Halasa > --=20 Jon Smirl jonsmirl@gmail.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-input" = in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html