From: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
To: Andy Walls <awalls@radix.net>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>,
Ray Lee <ray-lk@madrabbit.org>,
Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com>,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>,
Christoph Bartelmus <lirc@bartelmus.de>,
dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com, j@jannau.net, jarod@redhat.com,
jarod@wilsonet.com, linux-input@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-media@vger.kernel.org,
stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de, superm1@ubuntu.com
Subject: Re: [RFC] What are the goals for the architecture of an in-kernel IR system?
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 08:23:05 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9e4733910911300523y69b66963t36db6d52def6679d@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1259585852.3093.31.camel@palomino.walls.org>
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 7:57 AM, Andy Walls <awalls@radix.net> wrote:
> I suppose my best answer to that is question back to you: Why does udev
> run in userspace versus a kernel thread?
Because udev is a scripting system. I've always said that the
scripting piece of IR belongs in user space. IR scripting should be
optional, none of the systems I work on need it.
This is the event flow being built...
device timing data
-- send timing data to user space
-- do protocol decode (40K code)
-- send decoded data back to kernel
other devices that decode in HW add events here
-- send decoded data to user space
-- map to keys (30K code)
-- send keys back to kernel
apps listen for keys
-- send keys back to user space
-- user space apps act on key (possibly run scripts)
I'd like to see...
device timing data
-- user space can inject timing data from user space drivers
do protocol decode (40K code)
other devices that decode in HW add events here
-- user space can inject decoded data from user space drivers
map to keys (30K code)
apps listen for keys
-- send keys back to user space
-- user space apps act on key (possibly run scripts)
>
> My personal thoughts on why user space is more flexible:
>
> 1. You have all of *NIX available to you to use as tools to achieve your
> requirements.
>
> 2. You are not constrained to use C.
>
> 3. You can link in libraries with functions that are not available in
> the kernel. (udev has libudev IIRC to handle complexities)
>
> 4. Reading a configuration file or other file from the filesystem is
> trivial - file access from usespace is easy.
>
> 5. You don't have to be concerned about the running context (am I
> allowed to sleep here or not?).
>
>
>
>
>
>
>> A kernelspace input device driver can start working since boot time.
>> On the other hand, an userspace device driver will be available only
>> after mounting the filesystems and starting the deamons
>> (e. g. after running inittab).
>>
>> So, you cannot catch a key that would be affecting the boot
>> (for example to ask the kernel to run a different runlevel or entering
>> on some administrative mode).
>
> Right. That's another requirement that makes sense, if we're talking
> about systems that don't have any other keyboard handy to the user.
>
> So are we optimizing for the embedded/STB and HTPC with no keyboard use
> case, or the desktop or HTPC with a keyboard for maintencance?
>
>
> Regards,
> Andy
>
>
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2009-11-27 15:57 [RFC] What are the goals for the architecture of an in-kernel IR system? Jon Smirl
2009-11-27 16:57 ` Andy Walls
2009-11-27 17:29 ` Christoph Bartelmus
2009-11-27 17:49 ` Jon Smirl
2009-11-27 19:03 ` Ferenc Wagner
2009-11-27 19:21 ` Jon Smirl
2009-11-28 1:34 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2009-11-29 12:01 ` Christoph Bartelmus
2009-11-30 10:41 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2009-11-30 19:49 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2009-11-30 21:35 ` Jon Smirl
2009-12-01 7:45 ` Christoph Bartelmus
2009-12-01 11:38 ` Andy Walls
2009-12-01 14:10 ` Maxim Levitsky
2009-12-03 17:31 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2009-11-28 9:04 ` Simon Kenyon
2009-11-28 11:21 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2009-11-29 11:50 ` Christoph Bartelmus
2009-11-30 12:34 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2009-12-01 9:52 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2009-12-01 13:11 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2009-12-01 14:32 ` Jarod Wilson
2009-12-01 10:20 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2009-12-01 14:14 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2009-12-01 15:28 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2009-12-03 4:29 ` Jarod Wilson
2009-12-03 12:09 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2009-12-03 17:55 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2009-12-03 18:33 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2009-12-04 10:06 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2009-12-04 14:12 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2009-12-04 15:42 ` Jon Smirl
2009-12-06 7:09 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2009-12-06 11:03 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2009-12-06 20:19 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2009-12-08 0:00 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2009-12-08 14:06 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2009-12-07 7:48 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2009-12-07 15:34 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2009-12-07 18:34 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2009-12-07 23:01 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2009-12-06 7:14 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2009-12-06 11:23 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2009-12-03 18:56 ` Jon Smirl
2009-12-03 21:10 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2009-12-03 21:51 ` Christoph Bartelmus
2009-12-03 22:12 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2009-12-04 7:37 ` Christoph Bartelmus
2009-12-04 14:33 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2009-12-04 21:46 ` Christoph Bartelmus
2009-12-04 22:07 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2009-12-04 23:01 ` Christoph Bartelmus
2009-12-04 23:15 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2009-12-06 11:58 ` Christoph Bartelmus
2009-12-07 7:51 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2009-12-08 22:27 ` Christoph Bartelmus
2009-12-05 0:28 ` Jon Smirl
2009-12-05 1:48 ` Andy Walls
2009-12-05 2:10 ` Andy Walls
2009-12-05 3:45 ` Jon Smirl
2009-12-06 2:30 ` Andy Walls
2009-12-06 17:26 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2009-12-12 22:52 ` david
2009-12-06 3:36 ` hermann pitton
2009-12-06 6:55 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2009-12-06 11:46 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2009-12-06 17:48 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2009-12-06 17:52 ` Jon Smirl
2009-12-06 20:34 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2009-12-06 21:23 ` Jon Smirl
2009-12-07 23:44 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2009-12-08 0:28 ` Jon Smirl
2009-12-08 11:17 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2009-12-08 13:34 ` Jon Smirl
2009-12-08 14:56 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2009-12-08 22:25 ` Christoph Bartelmus
2009-12-08 17:04 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2009-12-08 13:54 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2009-12-08 4:23 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2009-12-08 11:58 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2009-12-08 14:01 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2009-12-08 14:13 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2009-12-08 15:26 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2009-12-08 15:41 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2009-12-08 17:12 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2009-12-08 13:57 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2009-12-08 17:25 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2009-12-08 13:52 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2009-12-08 14:07 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2009-12-08 14:51 ` Jon Smirl
2009-12-08 15:29 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2009-12-08 15:49 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2009-12-08 16:26 ` Jon Smirl
2009-12-08 4:10 ` Andy Walls
2009-12-08 22:30 ` Christoph Bartelmus
2009-12-09 2:21 ` Andy Walls
2009-12-07 18:41 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2009-12-07 20:08 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2009-12-07 21:38 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2009-12-08 15:24 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2009-12-08 0:44 ` Jon Smirl
2009-12-08 11:23 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2009-12-13 12:14 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2009-12-15 11:50 ` Pavel Machek
2009-12-15 13:33 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2009-12-15 13:43 ` Jon Smirl
2009-12-15 14:19 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2009-12-15 19:58 ` Pavel Machek
2009-12-15 20:14 ` Jon Smirl
2009-12-15 20:19 ` Pavel Machek
2009-12-15 20:29 ` Jon Smirl
2009-12-15 20:33 ` Pavel Machek
2009-12-15 20:45 ` Jon Smirl
2009-12-15 21:05 ` Pavel Machek
2009-12-15 21:38 ` Jon Smirl
2010-03-25 14:42 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2010-03-25 18:32 ` Pavel Machek
2010-03-25 19:00 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2010-03-26 11:04 ` David Härdeman
2010-03-26 11:27 ` David Härdeman
2010-03-26 14:40 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2010-03-26 16:01 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-03-26 17:22 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2010-03-26 19:07 ` David Härdeman
2010-03-26 22:37 ` Jon Smirl
2010-03-27 8:27 ` David Härdeman
2010-03-28 23:22 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2010-03-29 0:51 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2010-03-30 11:01 ` David Härdeman
2010-03-31 6:01 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2010-03-30 11:09 ` David Härdeman
2010-03-30 12:43 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2010-03-26 12:23 ` David Härdeman
2010-03-26 15:17 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2010-03-26 19:21 ` David Härdeman
2010-03-27 5:56 ` Pavel Machek
2010-04-09 7:21 ` James Hogan
2010-04-09 10:50 ` Andy Walls
2010-04-09 12:58 ` Jarod Wilson
2010-04-09 13:02 ` Jon Smirl
2010-04-09 13:01 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2010-04-09 21:42 ` James Hogan
2010-04-09 21:55 ` Devin Heitmueller
2010-04-09 22:14 ` Andy Walls
2010-04-09 23:32 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2010-04-10 0:18 ` Jon Smirl
2010-04-10 1:01 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2010-04-10 0:38 ` hermann pitton
2009-12-07 15:36 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2009-12-06 11:59 ` Christoph Bartelmus
2009-12-15 11:47 ` Pavel Machek
2009-12-06 12:12 ` Christoph Bartelmus
2009-12-06 16:38 ` Jon Smirl
2009-12-06 20:22 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2009-12-07 23:50 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2009-12-03 23:45 ` Andy Walls
2009-12-03 17:47 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2009-11-27 21:49 ` Stefan Richter
2009-11-28 1:08 ` Maxim Levitsky
2009-11-28 11:20 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2009-11-28 14:42 ` Maxim Levitsky
2009-11-28 15:25 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2009-11-28 15:35 ` Maxim Levitsky
2009-11-28 15:44 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2009-11-28 16:26 ` Maxim Levitsky
2009-11-28 16:44 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2009-11-28 16:47 ` Christoph Bartelmus
2009-11-28 17:06 ` Jon Smirl
2009-11-28 17:35 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2009-11-28 17:37 ` Jon Smirl
2009-11-28 17:40 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2009-11-28 23:26 ` Andy Walls
2009-11-29 4:58 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2009-11-29 20:27 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2009-11-29 20:44 ` Jon Smirl
2009-11-29 21:29 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2009-11-29 21:47 ` Jon Smirl
2009-11-29 22:48 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2009-11-29 21:31 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2009-11-30 4:50 ` Jarod Wilson
2009-11-30 0:48 ` Andy Walls
2009-12-01 10:46 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2009-12-01 11:49 ` Andy Walls
2009-12-01 14:02 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2009-12-01 14:18 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2009-11-30 17:45 ` Lennart Sorensen
2009-11-29 4:32 ` Andy Walls
2009-11-29 4:50 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2009-11-29 12:40 ` Alan Cox
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2009-11-30 2:15 ` Ray Lee
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2009-11-29 18:19 ` Jon Smirl
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2009-11-28 18:17 ` Stefan Richter
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2009-11-28 19:45 ` Stefan Richter
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2009-11-28 20:21 ` Krzysztof Halasa
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2009-11-28 20:46 ` Jon Smirl
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2009-11-29 4:59 ` Dmitry Torokhov
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2009-11-29 11:24 ` Christoph Bartelmus
2009-11-29 16:01 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2009-11-28 19:55 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2009-11-28 20:14 ` Jon Smirl
2009-11-28 20:29 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2009-11-28 17:21 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2009-11-29 11:07 ` Christoph Bartelmus
2009-11-28 16:45 ` Jon Smirl
2009-11-28 18:45 ` Maxim Levitsky
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2009-11-28 19:16 ` Maxim Levitsky
2009-11-28 19:30 ` Stefan Richter
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2009-11-29 5:31 ` Mike Lampard
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