Re: [RFC] What are the goals for the architecture of an in-kernel IR system?

Alan Cox
2009-11-29T12:39:14Z

> BTW, circa 1995 my serial mouse "Just Worked" in Linux. Sometime around

Correct X11 just talked to the serial ports. In fact that is still the
way to configure it if you want any sanity in life.

> and serial connected IRs. It's also too convenient to access USB IR
> hardware from existing userspace drivers to bother porting into the
> kernel.

Userspace needs a way to identify IR hardware and to interface with it
using the right protocol. It's not clear the kernel needs to provide
anything more than minimal hardware interfaces in most case - be that
serial, libusb, ...