From: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
To: Devin Heitmueller <dheitmueller@kernellabs.com>
Cc: Jarod Wilson <jarod@wilsonet.com>, Christoph Bartelmus <lirc@bartelmus.de>,
       awalls@radix.net, dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com, j@jannau.net,
       jarod@redhat.com, linux-input@vger.kernel.org,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-media@vger.kernel.org,
       mchehab@redhat.com, superm1@ubuntu.com
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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Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 21:47:48 +0100
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Devin Heitmueller <dheitmueller@kernellabs.com> writes:

> The other key thing I don't think we have given much thought to is the
> fact that in many tuners, the hardware does RC decoding and just
> returns NEC/RC5/RC6 codes.  And in many of those cases, the hardware
> has to be configured to know what format to receive.  We probably need
> some kernel API such that the hardware can tell lirc what formats are
> supported, and another API call to tell the hardware which mode to
> operate in.

For such cases, I wouldn't bother with lirc mode. Input layer + key
mapping with ioctl (probably improved), and lircd can grab events from
input layer if needed.
-- 
Krzysztof Halasa
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