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From: lirc@bartelmus.de (Christoph Bartelmus)
To: vincent.vanackere@gmail.com
Cc: linux-input@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: penberg@cs.helsinki.fi
Subject: Re: [PATCH] lirc: remove backwards compatibility macro obfuscation
Date: 04 Feb 2007 04:04:00 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AAEizONrB9B@bartelmus.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <65258a580702020304m52283349ne4ba2895d9ce7188@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Vincent,

on 02 Feb 07 at 12:04, you wrote:
> On 2/2/07, Pekka J Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> wrote:
>> From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
>>  [...]
>>  drivers/lirc_atiusb/lirc_atiusb.c           |  102 -----------------
>                               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
>  I may be mistaken, but the lirc_atiusb module looks redondant with
> the driver already in drivers/usb/input/ati_remote.c.
> Moreover, I was under the impression that the input layer was
> currently considered the "right way" to implement the kernel side lirc
> needs

No. Using the input layer makes no sense for most lirc drivers. The  
hardare used does not decode the IR signals itself but only provides raw  
signal timings. Those signals are decoded in userspace by lircd.
It would be a really bad idea trying to do this decoding in kernel  
space.

Christoph

  reply	other threads:[~2007-02-04  3:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-02  8:39 [PATCH] lirc: remove backwards compatibility macro obfuscation (Was: Free Linux Driver Development!) Pekka J Enberg
2007-02-02 11:04 ` Vincent Vanackere
2007-02-04  3:04   ` Christoph Bartelmus [this message]
2007-02-02 11:10 ` Jan Dittmer
2007-02-02 11:32   ` Pekka Enberg
2007-02-02 12:51     ` Jan Dittmer
2007-02-04  3:03 ` [PATCH] lirc: remove backwards compatibility macro obfuscation Christoph Bartelmus

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