From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from tichy.grunau.be ([85.131.189.73]:47041 "EHLO tichy.grunau.be" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751446AbZDEQ7D (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Apr 2009 12:59:03 -0400 Date: Sun, 5 Apr 2009 18:58:35 +0200 From: Janne Grunau To: Jean Delvare Cc: Hans Verkuil , Mike Isely , isely@isely.net, LMML , Andy Walls , Mauro Carvalho Chehab Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/6] ir-kbd-i2c: Switch to the new-style device binding model Message-ID: <20090405165835.GD10556@aniel> References: <20090404142427.6e81f316@hyperion.delvare> <20090405010539.187e6268@hyperion.delvare> <200904050746.47451.hverkuil@xs4all.nl> <20090405143748.GC10556@aniel> <20090405183743.5a239008@hyperion.delvare> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090405183743.5a239008@hyperion.delvare> Sender: linux-media-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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