From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Krzysztof Halasa Subject: Re: [RFC] What are the goals for the architecture of an in-kernel IR system? Date: Sun, 06 Dec 2009 18:26:40 +0100 Message-ID: References: <20091204220708.GD25669@core.coreip.homeip.net> <9e4733910912041628g5bedc9d2jbee3b0861aeb5511@mail.gmail.com> <1259977687.27969.18.camel@localhost> <9e4733910912041945g14732dcfgbb2ef6437ef62bb6@mail.gmail.com> <1260066624.3105.33.camel@palomino.walls.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from khc.piap.pl ([195.187.100.11]:53474 "EHLO khc.piap.pl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756650AbZLFR0h (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Dec 2009 12:26:37 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1260066624.3105.33.camel@palomino.walls.org> (Andy Walls's message of "Sat, 05 Dec 2009 21:30:24 -0500") Sender: linux-input-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-input@vger.kernel.org To: Andy Walls Cc: Jon Smirl , Christoph Bartelmus , dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com, j@jannau.net, jarod@redhat.com, jarod@wilsonet.com, kraxel@redhat.com, linux-input@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-media@vger.kernel.org, mchehab@redhat.com, superm1@ubuntu.com Andy Walls writes: > Yes, I agree. I do not know what percentage of current Linux users are > technical vs non-technical, so I cannot gauge the current improtance. > > I can see the trend line though: as time goes by, the percentage of all > linux users that have a technical bent will only get smaller. This IMHO shouldn't matter. If users can configure their keymaps for e.g. games with a graphical utility (and they easily can), they can do the same with their remotes, at least with these using common sane protocols. The only thing needed is a good GUI utility. Ergo - it's not a kernel issue. The "default bundled", or PnP, won't work well in comparison to a GUI utility, I wouldn't worry about it too much (though adding it to udev and co is trivial and we should do it - even if not PnP but asking first about the actual remote used). -- Krzysztof Halasa