From: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
To: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>, Andy Walls <awalls@radix.net>,
       Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>,
       Jarod Wilson <jarod@wilsonet.com>,
       Christoph Bartelmus <lirc@bartelmus.de>, j@jannau.net, jarod@redhat.com,
       linux-input@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       linux-media@vger.kernel.org, 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, 09 Dec 2009 00:30:34 +0100
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	Smirl's message of "Tue, 8 Dec 2009 11:19:45 -0500")
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Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com> writes:

> Why do you want to pull the 1KB default mapping table out of the
> device driver __init section and more it to a udev script? Now we will
> have to maintain a parallel udev script for ever receiver's device
> driver.

Of course no. We will need a single program (script etc.) for all
devices. And we will need a database of the known remotes (scan and key
codes).

> You can handle that with __devinit

__devinit is NOP with hot-plug.

Fortunately we don't need the keymaps in the kernel.
For certain uses we may (and may not) need to have one keymap built-in,
perhaps something similar to the embedded initrd.
-- 
Krzysztof Halasa
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