From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Krzysztof Halasa 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: Wed, 09 Dec 2009 00:30:34 +0100 Message-ID: References: <1260240142.3086.14.camel@palomino.walls.org> <20091208042210.GA11147@core.coreip.homeip.net> <1260275743.3094.6.camel@palomino.walls.org> <9e4733910912080452p42efa794mb7fd608fa4fbad7c@mail.gmail.com> <4B1E5746.7010305@redhat.com> <9e4733910912080601s1a814720qd909e47ac09f91fc@mail.gmail.com> <4B1E5FAF.40201@redhat.com> <9e4733910912080631r6fd306c5tdfd56482583b9bf5@mail.gmail.com> <4B1E656F.3020507@redhat.com> <9e4733910912080819l2ffc88fes894d02dc8b834ef@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from khc.piap.pl ([195.187.100.11]:54301 "EHLO khc.piap.pl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S936980AbZLHXab (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Dec 2009 18:30:31 -0500 In-Reply-To: <9e4733910912080819l2ffc88fes894d02dc8b834ef@mail.gmail.com> (Jon Smirl's message of "Tue, 8 Dec 2009 11:19:45 -0500") Sender: linux-input-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-input@vger.kernel.org To: Jon Smirl Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab , Andy Walls , Dmitry Torokhov , Jarod Wilson , Christoph Bartelmus , j@jannau.net, jarod@redhat.com, linux-input@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-media@vger.kernel.org, superm1@ubuntu.com Jon Smirl writes: > Why do you want to pull the 1KB default mapping table out of the > device driver __init section and more it to a udev script? Now we will > have to maintain a parallel udev script for ever receiver's device > driver. Of course no. We will need a single program (script etc.) for all devices. And we will need a database of the known remotes (scan and key codes). > You can handle that with __devinit __devinit is NOP with hot-plug. Fortunately we don't need the keymaps in the kernel. For certain uses we may (and may not) need to have one keymap built-in, perhaps something similar to the embedded initrd. -- Krzysztof Halasa