From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from zone0.gcu-squad.org ([212.85.147.21]:35038 "EHLO services.gcu-squad.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751393AbZDEQiI (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Apr 2009 12:38:08 -0400 Date: Sun, 5 Apr 2009 18:37:43 +0200 From: Jean Delvare To: Janne Grunau 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: <20090405183743.5a239008@hyperion.delvare> In-Reply-To: <20090405143748.GC10556@aniel> References: <20090404142427.6e81f316@hyperion.delvare> <20090405010539.187e6268@hyperion.delvare> <200904050746.47451.hverkuil@xs4all.nl> <20090405143748.GC10556@aniel> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-media-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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) > Jared Wilson and I were working on it (mainly last september). Since the > IR on the HD PVR is also driven by the same zilog chip as on other > hauppauge devices I'll take of lirc_zilog. Help converting the i2c > drivers to the new i2c model is welcome. General cleanup of lirc to make > it ready for mainline is of course wellcome too. 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. -- Jean Delvare