[RFC PATCH] lirc IR receiver drivers

[Jarod Wilson]

Jarod Wilson wrote:
> Eric Sandeen wrote:
>> Jarod Wilson wrote:
>>> Hey all,
>>>
>>> So... As I've mentioned on various forums here and there in the
>>> recent past, I'd really like to see fedora carry the lirc drivers
>>> (http://www.lirc.org/) in-kernel, and help push them into the
>>> upstream kernel. I finally got around to doing something significant
>>> about it this evening. The link below is the completion of my first
>>> attempt at a patch tailored for upstream, based partially on work
>>> done by Mario Limonciello for Ubuntu (cc'd).
>>>
>>> http://people.redhat.com/jwilson/lirc/linux-2.6-lirc.patch
>>
>> Cool, I tossed a few build-related fixes (warnings, deprecated
>> interfaces/flags, etc..) on top of this up at
>>
>> http://people.redhat.com/esandeen/lirc/
> 
> Very nice. Gah, at least one of those fixes some things I screwed up
> merging in the latest bits from cvs...
> 
>> (There's also usb stuff going on I don't understand in the commandir
>> driver :) but with the warning about the callback it will probably
>> explode when run.)
> 
> Hrm, that's not so good... I was thinking of seeing if I could find one
> somewhere for cheap, but ouch, those things look pricey...
> 
> http://www.commandir.com/order/
> 
>> Also given that each subdir under drivers/input/lirc generally has just
>> one .c file, I'd probably flatten it out, and drop everything into
>> drivers/input/lirc/*.c
> 
> Yeah, that idea crossed my mind too after I'd sent the mail off before
> drifting off to sleep. I'll do that for the next rendition.
> 
>> Also in Kconfig, INPUT_LIRC and LIRC_DEV seem a little redundant -
>> perhaps each individual driver should just do "select LIRC_DEV" rather
>> than "depends on?" and remove the prompt for LIRC_DEV?
> 
> Sounds like a good idea to me.

All of the work Eric and I did over the weekend is now in a proper git
tree, which can be browsed (and cloned) here:

http://git.wilsonet.com/linux-2.6-lirc.git/

A few more clean-ups and we'll slap this puppy into an actual rawhide
kernel build to start getting some wider testing...

-- 
Jarod Wilson
jwilson at redhat.com


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