Re: [GIT PULL for v5.18-rc1] media updates

Jiri Slaby
2022-05-25T10:46:44Z

On 25. 05. 22, 11:10, Sean Young wrote:
> On Wed, May 25, 2022 at 10:09:38AM +0200, Jiri Slaby wrote:
>> I don't understand how inability to build software is not an uapi breakage
>> -- care to elaborate?
>
> So here is a good compromise suggested by Mauro.
>
> 1. We add the following to the lirc.h uapi header.
>
> #define LIRC_CAN_NOTIFY_DECODE 0
> #define LIRC_CAN_SET_REC_FILTER 0

The code would do "if (x & 0)" or alike, so I'm not sure this won't
result in a warning. But as soon as that thing compiles, I don't really
care much. If it produces no warning, in fact, the code could be
optimized away out thanks to "& 0".

Just looked up those defs in the debian code search, only lirc and
v4l-utils care about the defines. ANd the latter seems to define their
own copies.

> 2. Since lirc daemon is unmaintained, I am happy to take on maintainership.
>
> This may require forking, depending on what the maintainer says.
>
> How does that sound?

Great.

thanks,
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js
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