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 17:18:34 -0500 Message-ID: <9e4733910911281418s702489e5t418eab5623c2af98@mail.gmail.com> References: <9e4733910911280906if1191a1jd3d055e8b781e45c@mail.gmail.com> <4B116954.5050706@s5r6.in-berlin.de> <9e4733910911281058i1b28f33bh64c724a89dcb8cf5@mail.gmail.com> <4B117DEA.3030400@s5r6.in-berlin.de> <9e4733910911281208t23c938a2l7537e248e1eda4ae@mail.gmail.com> <4B11881B.7000204@s5r6.in-berlin.de> <9e4733910911281246r65670e1free76e98ff4a23822@mail.gmail.com> <4B119A36.8020903@s5r6.in-berlin.de> <9e4733910911281410i75bf19b7xa4dfd6ad1dc1b748@mail.gmail.com> 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]:56801 "EHLO mail-qy0-f194.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751894AbZK1WS2 (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Nov 2009 17:18:28 -0500 In-Reply-To: <9e4733910911281410i75bf19b7xa4dfd6ad1dc1b748@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-input-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-input@vger.kernel.org To: Stefan Richter Cc: Christoph Bartelmus , 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, superm1@ubuntu.com I'm looking at a Sony multi-function remote right now. It has five devices and forty keys. Each of the five devices can transmit 0-9, power, volume, etc. It transmits 5*40 = 200 unique scancodes. I want the five devices to correspond to five apps. What's the plan for splitting those 200 scancodes into the five apps? I did it by creating five evdev devices each mapping 40 scancodes. That's lets me reuse KP_1 for each of the five apps. -- Jon Smirl jonsmirl@gmail.com