From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759845AbZKZIjY (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Nov 2009 03:39:24 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753868AbZKZIjY (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Nov 2009 03:39:24 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:59926 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753365AbZKZIjW (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Nov 2009 03:39:22 -0500 Message-ID: <4B0E3EA4.7000003@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 09:39:00 +0100 From: Gerd Hoffmann User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.4pre) Gecko/20091014 Fedora/3.0-2.8.b4.fc11 Lightning/1.0pre Thunderbird/3.0b4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Christoph Bartelmus CC: awalls@radix.net, dheitmueller@kernellabs.com, dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com, j@jannau.net, jarod@redhat.com, jarod@wilsonet.com, khc@pm.waw.pl, linux-input@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-media@vger.kernel.org, mchehab@redhat.com, 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 References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 11/26/09 08:28, Christoph Bartelmus wrote: > Hi Gerd, > > on 26 Nov 09 at 00:22, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > [...] >>> To sum it up: I don't think this information will be useful at all for >>> lircd or anyone else. > [...] >> I know that lircd does matching instead of decoding, which allows to >> handle unknown encodings. Thats why I think there will always be cases >> which only lircd will be able to handle (using raw samples). >> >> That doesn't make attempts to actually decode the IR samples a useless >> exercise though ;) > > Well, in my opinion it is kind of useless. I don't see any use case or any > demand for passing this kind of information to userspace, at least in the > LIRC context. > If there's no demand, why bother? There have been complains about this getting lost somewhere in this thread, so it looks like there are people which do care. cheers, Gerd