Re: [linux-usb-devel] Fwd: USB IR receivers and evdev

2007-02-18 Thread Christoph Bartelmus
Hi Jon, on 15 Feb 07 at 00:34, you wrote: [...] >> I'm only a bit concerned about scalability. It's easily possible to have >> hundreds of remote control definitions in your lircd.conf. Creating a >> device node for each of them will be very inefficient. > I have about ten remotes and I thought t

Re: [linux-usb-devel] Fwd: USB IR receivers and evdev

2007-02-14 Thread Christoph Bartelmus
Hi Jon, on 14 Feb 07 at 09:44, you wrote: [...] > Adding uinput support would also let you get rid of all the X specific > code since X knows how to read evdev.You just need to do is add a > small section to your xorg.conf. > > Are your interested in adding this support? Yes, I like the concept y

Re: [linux-usb-devel] Fwd: USB IR receivers and evdev

2007-02-13 Thread Christoph Bartelmus
Hi Jon, on 13 Feb 07 at 23:46, you wrote: [...] > evdev doesn't just handle keyboards. Yes, sorry for simplifying it too much. I just opt for using uinput from user-space so that configuration is consistent for all devices. If some devices use the kernel input layer directly, you will have to

Re: [linux-usb-devel] Fwd: USB IR receivers and evdev

2007-02-13 Thread Christoph Bartelmus
Hi! Jon Smirl "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" wrote: > LIRC folks, there is an on-going discussion about possible future > designs for IR support in the kernel. What's your take on how to do > this? Pass all events to userspace and let lircd do the mapping/decoding. In case of the atiusb device there are cu