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From: Ivaylo Dimitrov <ivo.g.dimitrov.75@gmail.com>
To: Sean Young <sean@mess.org>
Cc: linux-media@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"Timo Kokkonen" <timo.t.kokkonen@iki.fi>,
	"Pavel Machek" <pavel@ucw.cz>,
	"Pali Rohár" <pali.rohar@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] [media] ir-rx51: port to rc-core
Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2016 13:30:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5878d916-6a60-d5c3-b912-948b5b970661@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f5262cc638a494f238ef96a80d8f45265ca2fd02.1482255894.git.sean@mess.org>

Hi,

On 20.12.2016 19:50, Sean Young wrote:
> This driver was written using lirc since rc-core did not support
> transmitter-only hardware at that time. Now that it does, port
> this driver.
>
> Compile tested only.
>

I guess after that change, there will be no more /dev/lircN device, 
right? Neither will LIRC_XXX IOCTL codes be supported?

That looks to me as a completely new driver, not a port to new API.

Right now there are applications using the current behaviour (pierogi 
for example), which will be broken by the change.

Ivo

  reply	other threads:[~2016-12-30 11:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-12-20 17:50 [PATCH 0/5] Lirc staging drivers Sean Young
2016-12-20 17:50 ` [PATCH 1/5] [media] ir-rx51: port to rc-core Sean Young
2016-12-30 11:30   ` Ivaylo Dimitrov [this message]
2016-12-30 13:07     ` Sean Young
2016-12-30 13:30       ` Sean Young
2016-12-30 13:50         ` Ivaylo Dimitrov
2016-12-30 15:46           ` Sean Young
2017-01-16 10:10           ` Sean Young
2017-01-16 16:34             ` Ivaylo Dimitrov
2017-01-16 20:13               ` Pavel Machek
2017-01-30 16:26                 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2016-12-20 17:50 ` [PATCH 2/5] [media] staging: lirc_sir: " Sean Young
2016-12-20 17:50 ` [PATCH 3/5] [media] staging: lirc_parallel: remove Sean Young
2016-12-20 17:50 ` [PATCH 4/5] [media] staging: lirc_bt829: remove Sean Young
2016-12-20 17:50 ` [PATCH 5/5] [media] staging: lirc_imon: port remaining usb ids to imon and remove Sean Young

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