Date: 23 Nov 2009 22:10:00 +0100
From: lirc@bartelmus.de (Christoph Bartelmus)
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Subject: Re: [RFC] Should we create a raw input interface for IR's ? - Was: Re: [PATCH 1/3 v2] lirc core device driver infrastructure
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Hi Jarod,

on 23 Nov 09 at 14:17, Jarod Wilson wrote:
>> Krzysztof Halasa wrote:
[...]
>> If you see patch 3/3, of the lirc submission series, you'll notice a driver
>> that has hardware decoding, but, due to lirc interface, the driver
>> generates pseudo pulse/space code for it to work via lirc interface.

> Historically, this is true.

No, it's not.
I think you misunderstood the code. The comment may be a bit misleading,
too.
Early iMON devices did not decode in hardware and the part of the driver
that Krzystof is referring to is translating a bit-stream of the sampled  
input data into pulse/space durations.

Christoph
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