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

[Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@kernel.org>]

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,
-- 
js
suse labs