Re: [PATCH 3/6] ir-kbd-i2c: Switch to the new-style device binding model

[Janne Grunau <j@jannau.net>]

On Sun, Apr 05, 2009 at 06:37:43PM +0200, Jean Delvare wrote:
> Hi Janne,
> 
> On Sun, 5 Apr 2009 16:37:49 +0200, Janne Grunau wrote:
> > On Sun, Apr 05, 2009 at 07:46:47AM +0200, Hans Verkuil wrote:
> > >
> > > Let's keep it simple: add a 'load_ir_kbd_i2c' module option for those 
> > > drivers that did not autoload this module. The driver author can refine 
> > > things later (I'll definitely will do that for ivtv).
> > > 
> > > It will be interesting if someone can find out whether lirc will work at all 
> > > once autoprobing is removed from i2c. If it isn't, then perhaps that will 
> > > wake them up to the realization that they really need to move to the 
> > > kernel.
> > 
> > I would guess that it won't work. There is an effort to merge lirc. It's
> > currently stalled though. A git tree is available at
> > 
> > git://git.wilsonet.com/linux-2.6-lirc.git
> 
> I tried to clone this but it failed:
> 
> git.wilsonet.com[0: 72.93.233.4]: errno=Connection timed out
> fatal: unable to connect a socket (Connection timed out)

hmm, getting that here too. I'll send Jarod a mail. You can use my clone
instead: git://git.jannau.net/linux-2.6-lirc.git

> I will happily help you with the i2c side of things. Without an access
> to your git tree however, I don't know the latest state of your code.
> And I can't see any lirc_zilog module in the CVS repository of lirc
> either. But if you show me the i2c code you're worried about, I'll let
> you know what I think about it.

lirc_zilog or lirc_pvr is not in lirc's cvs since it requires a
'firmware' for mapping keys to sequences for the ir blaster.

Janne