From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: lirc@bartelmus.de (Christoph Bartelmus) 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: 23 Nov 2009 22:10:00 +0100 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-media-owner@vger.kernel.org To: jarod@wilsonet.com Cc: dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com, j@jannau.net, jarod@redhat.com, khc@pm.waw.pl, linux-input@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-media@vger.kernel.org, mchehab@redhat.com, superm1@ubuntu.com List-Id: linux-input@vger.kernel.org Hi Jarod, on 23 Nov 09 at 14:17, Jarod Wilson wrote: >> Krzysztof Halasa wrote: [...] >> If you see patch 3/3, of the lirc submission series, you'll notice a driver >> that has hardware decoding, but, due to lirc interface, the driver >> generates pseudo pulse/space code for it to work via lirc interface. > Historically, this is true. No, it's not. I think you misunderstood the code. The comment may be a bit misleading, too. Early iMON devices did not decode in hardware and the part of the driver that Krzystof is referring to is translating a bit-stream of the sampled input data into pulse/space durations. Christoph