> BTW, circa 1995 my serial mouse "Just Worked" in Linux. Sometime around
Correct X11 just talked to the serial ports. In fact that is still the way to configure it if you want any sanity in life. > and serial connected IRs. It's also too convenient to access USB IR > hardware from existing userspace drivers to bother porting into the > kernel. Userspace needs a way to identify IR hardware and to interface with it using the right protocol. It's not clear the kernel needs to provide anything more than minimal hardware interfaces in most case - be that serial, libusb, ... -- 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
