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Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2009 09:54:01 -0800
From: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
To: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Cc: Devin Heitmueller <dheitmueller@kernellabs.com>,
       Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>,
       Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com>, awalls@radix.net,
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       linux-input@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       linux-media@vger.kernel.org, lirc-list@lists.sourceforge.net,
       superm1@ubuntu.com, Christoph Bartelmus <lirc@bartelmus.de>
Subject: Re: [RFC v2] Another approach to IR
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On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 03:29:44PM -0200, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> 
> For sure we need to add an EVIOSETPROTO ioctl to allow the driver 
> to change the protocol in runtime.
> 

Mauro,

I think this kind of confuguration belongs to lirc device space,
not input/evdev. This is the same as protocol selection for psmouse
module: while it is normally auto-detected we have sysfs attribute to
force one or another and it is tied to serio device, not input
device.

-- 
Dmitry
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