Re: [RFC] Should we create a raw input interface for IR's ? - Was: Re: [PATCH 1/3 v2] lirc core device driver infrastructure

[Krzysztof Halasa]

Devin Heitmueller <dheitmueller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> There is an argument to be made that since it may be desirable for
> both IR receivers and transmitters to share the same table of remote
> control definitions, it might make sense to at least *consider* how
> the IR transmitter interface is going to work, even if it is decided
> to not implement such a design in the first revision.
>
> Personally, I would hate to see a situation where we find out that we
> took a bad approach because nobody considered what would be required
> for IR transmitters to reuse the same remote control definition data.

I briefly though about such possibility, but dismissed it with
assumption that we won't transmit the same codes (including "key" codes)
that we receive.

Perhaps I'm wrong.
-- 
Krzysztof Halasa
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