Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759816AbZKZQD0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:03:26 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756000AbZKZQDZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:03:25 -0500 Received: from mail-qy0-f192.google.com ([209.85.221.192]:39695 "EHLO mail-qy0-f192.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751574AbZKZQDX (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:03:23 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=dAFzMKaVMx2Gvr8oemWZoHOTBc7JLYFoob8BlD9Rs2f5odThb/Bo8diSVNqz34+nKn q087bhD4fQmAFOzUDaV6UVHZsSBcEi3ElQ5grrns+kwT9SzEPKidx66XGxJlK7fPAHMf qsH0g+DIFpAoKCmB5cyxa5F18pGcvD312fT1s= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <9e4733910911260748v454d3b0bvcc6bfc86823cdd39@mail.gmail.com> References: <829197380911251020y6f330f15mba32920ac63e97d3@mail.gmail.com> <4B0DA885.7010601@redhat.com> <4B0E9493.1090200@redhat.com> <9e4733910911260748v454d3b0bvcc6bfc86823cdd39@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:03:25 -0500 Message-ID: <9e4733910911260803q6f5cd6c0g5006e84f7733dc85@mail.gmail.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 From: Jon Smirl To: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Cc: Gerd Hoffmann , Devin Heitmueller , Jarod Wilson , Krzysztof Halasa , Christoph Bartelmus , 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, superm1@ubuntu.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 692 Lines: 17 BTW, we used to have device specific user space interfaces for mouse and keyboard. These caused all sort of problems. A lot of work went into unifying them under evdev. It will be years until the old, messed up interfaces can be totally removed. I'm not in favor of repeating the problems with a device specific user space interface for IR. I believe all new input devices should implement the evdev framework. -- Jon Smirl jonsmirl@gmail.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/