Re: [RFC PATCH V4 0/6] In-kernel IR remote control support

[J.R. Mauro]

On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 3:07 PM, Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 2:59 PM, J.R. Mauro <jrm8005@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 2:47 PM, Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@xxxxxxxxx> 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.

>
> LIRC needs a daemon to run and apps have to be modified to use it.
> This code runs all in-kernel and looks like keyboard input to apps.
>
> LIRC developers and anyone else and encouraged to help with this code.

What's involved in converting an LIRC driver into something usable
with your framework?

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> Jon Smirl
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