Re: In-kernel IR remote control support

[Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>]

On Thu 2008-11-13 00:09:00, Christoph Bartelmus wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> on 12 Nov 08 at 14:39, J.R. Mauro wrote:
> [...]
> > On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 3:07 PM, Jon Smirl <jonsm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 2:59 PM, J.R. Mauro <jrm8...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 2:47 PM, Jon Smirl <jonsm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>> New release of in-kernel IR support implementing evdev support. The goal
> >>>> of in-kernel IR is to integrate IR events into the evdev input event
> >>>> queue and maintain ordering of events from all input devices. Still
> >>>> looking for help with this project.
> 
> >>> (Forgive me if this has already been asked or dealt with)
> 
> >>> Have you contacted the LIRC developers? Is there any overlap between
> >>> your projects?
> 
> >> The LIRC people know about this. Pieces of the code are coming from
> >> the LIRC source base and being reworked for kernel inclusion.
> 
> > Great, it's nice to see there's cooperation.
> 
> LOL. There's just a small omission from Jon's side...
> Yes, LIRC people know about this. And Jon has a no-go from me.
> 
> Decoding IR protocols in-kernel is the wrong way IMHO and this will not be  
> supported by LIRC as long as I maintain LIRC.

Time to fork lirc...?

Can you elaborate?  I don't see why IR remotes deserve special
handling. I'd expect to just plug in the receiver and have it work as
/dev/input/*.

> It's simply not possible to decode all existing IR protocols and LIRC just  
> stores the timing data for these protocols as-is without trying to decode  
> them. With the in-kernel decoding approach these remotes cannot be  
> supported. I'm not willing to sacrifice the support for these even though  
> they only consist of a very small fraction of remotes in use.

So you make it suck for everyone just because few obscure IR
remotes. Perfect enemy of good, I'd say :-(.

Can we merge the common ones into the kernel, while still keeping the
obscure ones in userspace using uinput or something?

I don't see why Jon's work bothers you. He's trying to do the right
support for the common remotes. That seems like a net plus to me, and
you can still keep the obscure ones in userland.


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