From: Jarod Wilson <jwilson@redhat.com>
To: Christoph Bartelmus <lirc@bartelmus.de>
Cc: j@jannau.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
lkml@ml.breakpoint.cc, superm1@ubuntu.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/18] lirc core device driver infrastructure
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 15:09:51 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200809111509.51901.jwilson@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AlfDffi3jFB@christoph>
On Thursday 11 September 2008 14:30:00 Christoph Bartelmus wrote:
> Hi,
>
> on 09 Sep 08 at 13:03, Jarod Wilson wrote:
> > On Tuesday 09 September 2008 03:40:18 Sebastian Siewior wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> >>>+EXTRA_CFLAGS =-DIRCTL_DEV_MAJOR=61 -DLIRC_SERIAL_TRANSMITTER -I$(src)
> >>
> >> Do you rely on this specific major? Since your daemon opens /dev/lirc0
> >> you don't need a fixed major do you?
> >
> > Good question. Quite honestly, I'm not sure. Christoph?
>
> LIRC does not rely on a specific major. But to be honest, the last time I
> looked into this issue, was when devfs was bleeding-edge...
>
> So, we need some advice here how to proceed. Should we try to register an
> official major number for LIRC? Should we try to have a minor number
> mapping, e.g.
> /dev/lirc/serial/0 LIRC device on 1st UART serial port
> ...
> /dev/lirc/serial/n LIRC device on n-th UART serial port
> /dev/lirc/parallel/0 LIRC device on 1st parallel port
> ...
> /dev/lirc/parallel/n LIRC device on n-th parallel port
> /dev/lirc/usb/0 1st LIRC USB device
> ...
Janne took a crack at dynamic device allocation earlier today, committed into
my git tree:
http://git.wilsonet.com/linux-2.6-
lirc.git/?a=commitdiff;h=ea74897bf7b03e2ed2401df3815637caa0702eab
Haven't yet tested it out, that's on tap for tonight...
--
Jarod Wilson
jarod@redhat.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-11 19:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 94+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-09 4:05 [PATCH 0/18] linux infrared remote control drivers Jarod Wilson
2008-09-09 4:05 ` [PATCH 01/18] lirc core device driver infrastructure Jarod Wilson
2008-09-09 4:05 ` [PATCH 02/18] lirc serial port receiver/transmitter device driver Jarod Wilson
2008-09-09 4:05 ` [PATCH 03/18] lirc driver for 1st-gen Media Center Ed. USB IR transceivers Jarod Wilson
2008-09-09 4:05 ` [PATCH 04/18] lirc driver for 2nd-gen and later " Jarod Wilson
2008-09-09 4:05 ` [PATCH 05/18] lirc driver for i2c-based IR receivers Jarod Wilson
2008-09-09 4:05 ` [PATCH 06/18] lirc driver for the ATI USB RF remote receiver Jarod Wilson
2008-09-09 4:05 ` [PATCH 07/18] lirc driver for the CommandIR USB Transceiver Jarod Wilson
2008-09-09 4:05 ` [PATCH 08/18] lirc driver for the Soundgraph IMON IR Receivers Jarod Wilson
2008-09-09 4:05 ` [PATCH 09/18] lirc driver for the Streamzap PC Receiver Jarod Wilson
2008-09-09 4:05 ` [PATCH 10/18] lirc driver for Igor Cesko's USB IR receiver Jarod Wilson
2008-09-09 4:05 ` [PATCH 11/18] lirc driver for the Technotrend " Jarod Wilson
2008-09-09 4:05 ` [PATCH 12/18] lirc driver for the Sasem OnAir and Dign HV5 receivers Jarod Wilson
2008-09-09 4:05 ` [PATCH 13/18] lirc driver for ITE8709 CIR port receiver Jarod Wilson
2008-09-09 4:05 ` [PATCH 14/18] lirc driver for the ITE IT87xx CIR Port receivers Jarod Wilson
2008-09-09 4:06 ` [PATCH 15/18] lirc driver for the SIR IrDA port Jarod Wilson
2008-09-09 4:06 ` [PATCH 16/18] lirc driver for the IR interface on BT829-based hardware Jarod Wilson
2008-09-09 4:06 ` [PATCH 17/18] lirc driver for homebrew parallel port receivers Jarod Wilson
2008-09-09 4:06 ` [PATCH 18/18] lirc driver for the zilog/haupauge IR transceiver Jarod Wilson
2008-09-09 4:06 ` Jarod Wilson
2008-09-11 15:22 ` [PATCH 09/18] lirc driver for the Streamzap PC Receiver Jonathan Corbet
2008-09-10 21:02 ` [PATCH 08/18] lirc driver for the Soundgraph IMON IR Receivers Jonathan Corbet
2008-09-10 21:23 ` Janne Grunau
2008-09-11 3:22 ` Jarod Wilson
2008-09-22 21:47 ` Jarod Wilson
2008-09-24 20:21 ` Jarod Wilson
2008-09-10 17:09 ` [PATCH 07/18] lirc driver for the CommandIR USB Transceiver Jonathan Corbet
2008-09-11 18:24 ` Christoph Bartelmus
[not found] ` <1221159005.13683.34.camel@minimatt>
2008-09-11 19:03 ` Jarod Wilson
2008-09-11 19:14 ` Janne Grunau
2008-09-25 15:21 ` Jarod Wilson
2008-09-10 9:58 ` [PATCH 06/18] lirc driver for the ATI USB RF remote receiver Ville Syrjälä
2008-09-10 13:05 ` Jarod Wilson
2008-09-10 13:14 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-09-10 13:37 ` Jon Smirl
2008-09-10 14:30 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2008-09-10 13:44 ` Janne Grunau
2008-09-10 14:13 ` Jarod Wilson
2008-09-10 14:19 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-09-10 14:08 ` Ville Syrjälä
2008-09-10 14:37 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2008-09-09 4:13 ` [PATCH 05/18] lirc driver for i2c-based IR receivers Jarod Wilson
2008-09-10 15:42 ` Jonathan Corbet
2008-09-09 23:30 ` [PATCH 04/18] lirc driver for 2nd-gen and later Media Center Ed. USB IR transceivers Jonathan Corbet
2008-09-10 0:36 ` Janne Grunau
2008-09-11 9:21 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-09-09 19:21 ` [PATCH 03/18] lirc driver for 1st-gen " Jonathan Corbet
2008-09-09 23:59 ` Janne Grunau
2008-09-10 1:39 ` Jarod Wilson
2008-09-10 0:04 ` Janne Grunau
2008-09-09 16:14 ` [PATCH 02/18] lirc serial port receiver/transmitter device driver Jonathan Corbet
2008-09-09 19:51 ` Stefan Lippers-Hollmann
2008-09-09 19:56 ` Jarod Wilson
2008-09-10 17:40 ` Jarod Wilson
2008-09-09 7:40 ` [PATCH 01/18] lirc core device driver infrastructure Sebastian Siewior
2008-09-09 9:53 ` Janne Grunau
2008-09-09 12:33 ` Sebastian Siewior
2008-09-09 13:10 ` Janne Grunau
2008-09-11 16:41 ` Christoph Bartelmus
2008-09-09 11:13 ` Alan Cox
2008-09-09 13:27 ` Stefan Richter
2008-09-09 17:03 ` Jarod Wilson
2008-09-11 18:30 ` Christoph Bartelmus
2008-09-11 19:09 ` Jarod Wilson [this message]
2008-09-13 7:21 ` Christoph Bartelmus
2008-09-09 9:46 ` Andi Kleen
2008-09-09 11:35 ` Janne Grunau
2008-09-09 13:03 ` Andi Kleen
2008-09-09 13:20 ` Janne Grunau
2008-09-12 16:46 ` Greg KH
2008-09-09 13:01 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-09-10 12:24 ` Janne Grunau
2008-09-10 12:29 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-09-10 12:45 ` Janne Grunau
2008-09-11 18:03 ` Christoph Bartelmus
2008-09-11 19:18 ` Janne Grunau
2008-09-12 0:16 ` Janne Grunau
2008-09-12 8:33 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-09-12 14:51 ` Jarod Wilson
2008-09-09 15:33 ` Jonathan Corbet
2008-09-12 0:12 ` Janne Grunau
2008-09-10 13:08 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2008-09-11 8:47 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2008-09-11 21:28 ` Maxim Levitsky
2008-09-13 7:20 ` Christoph Bartelmus
2008-09-12 4:44 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2008-09-09 4:36 ` [PATCH 0/18] linux infrared remote control drivers Chris Wedgwood
2008-09-09 7:06 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2008-09-09 8:32 ` Janne Grunau
2008-09-09 12:46 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-09-09 15:23 ` Jarod Wilson
2008-09-09 18:27 ` Lennart Sorensen
2008-09-09 18:34 ` Jarod Wilson
2008-09-09 15:34 ` Jon Smirl
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