Re: [PATCH 00/15] ir-core: Several improvements to allow adding LIRC and decoder plugins

["David Härdeman" <david@hardeman.nu>]

On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 04:49:10PM -0400, Jarod Wilson wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 6:20 AM, David Härdeman <david@hardeman.nu> wrote:
> > Porting the msmce driver to rc-core will be high on my list of
> > priorities once I've done some more changes to the API.
> 
> Very cool. Though note that the latest lirc_mceusb is quite heavily
> modified from what Jon had initially ported, and I still have a few
> outstanding enhancements to make, such as auto-detecting xmit mask to
> eliminate the crude inverted mask list and support for the mce IR
> keyboard/mouse, though that'll probably be trivial once RC5 and RC6
> in-kernel decoders are in place. I'd intended to start with porting
> the imon driver I'm working on over to this new infra (onboard
> hardware decoder, should be rather easy to port), and then hop over to
> the mceusb driver, but if you beat me to it, I've got no problem with
> you doing it instead. :)

I'd be happy with you doing it, you seem to know the hardware better 
than me. The mceusb driver I'm using right now with ir-core is based on 
Jon's driver which is in turn based on a version of lirc_mceusb which is 
quite old by now. My version of the driver is basically just random bits 
and pieces thrown together, enough to get pulse/space durations flowing 
through ir-core so that I can test the decoders, but not much more - so 
it's not something I'd even consider useful as a starting point :)

Note however that you won't be able to actually port the mceusb driver 
over until ir-core is taught to use durations (first version of the 
patch is at [1], second version still brewing but I still need to 
convince Mauro though).

[1] http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-input/msg07859.html

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David Härdeman