From: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
To: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Cc: Jarod Wilson <jarod@wilsonet.com>,
       Devin Heitmueller <dheitmueller@kernellabs.com>,
       Christoph Bartelmus <lirc@bartelmus.de>, awalls@radix.net, j@jannau.net,
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       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 ?
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Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 01:28:36 +0100
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Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> writes:

> There are binary sysfs attributes.

Aren't they to be used for things like ROMs and EEPROMs exclusively?

> For ioctl you also need to open and
> close the device.

Sure, but I do it once.

> Plus, how often do you expect to perform this
> operation? Don't you think you are trying to optimize something that
> does not have any real performavnce impact here?

Maybe, anyway it will have to work before it's included in the kernel,
so I don't worry too much about it. Perhaps we should then merge the
lirc patches so both driver sets can be improved?
-- 
Krzysztof Halasa
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