From: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
To: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Cc: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>,
       Jarod Wilson <jarod@redhat.com>,
       Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Mario Limonciello <superm1@ubuntu.com>,
       linux-input@vger.kernel.org, linux-media@vger.kernel.org,
       Janne Grunau <j@jannau.net>, Christoph Bartelmus <lirc@bartelmus.de>
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: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 19:18:09 +0100
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Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com> writes:

> Technically, it is not hard to port this solution to the other
> drivers, but the issue is that we don't have all those IR's to know
> what is the complete scancode that each key produces. So, the hardest
> part is to find a way for doing it without causing regressions, and to
> find a group of people that will help testing the new way.

We don't want to "port it" to other drivers. We need to have a common
module which does all RCx decoding. The individual drivers should be as
simple as possible, something that I outlined in a previous mail.
-- 
Krzysztof Halasa
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