On Sun, 5 Apr 2009, Andy Walls wrote: > > Here is where LIRC may be its own worst enemy. LIRC has filled some > shortcomings in the kernel for support of IR device functions for so > long (LWN says LIRC is 10 years old), that large numbers of users have > come to depend on its operation, while at the same time apparently > removing impetus for doing much to update the in kernel IR device > support.
More than that. In 1997 I bought a serial port remote off ebay and tried to get it to work with linux. I found an abandoned project from the Metzler brothers called LIRC, though it didn't work. I wrote a new protocol for the serial port driver, which was the only one at the time, rewrote the remote pulse decoding code and came up a new socket based the client/server protocol and wrote the x-event client. At that point remotes were defined in header files so make was still needed to add a new one. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
