Messages in this thread |  | | Date | 26 Nov 2009 08:28:00 +0100 | | From | (Christoph Bartelmus) | | Subject | Re: [RFC] Should we create a raw input interface for IR's ? - Was: Re: [PATCH 1/3 v2] lirc core device driver infrastructure |
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Hi Gerd,
on 26 Nov 09 at 00:22, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: [...] >> To sum it up: I don't think this information will be useful at all for >> lircd or anyone else. [...] > I know that lircd does matching instead of decoding, which allows to > handle unknown encodings. Thats why I think there will always be cases > which only lircd will be able to handle (using raw samples). > > That doesn't make attempts to actually decode the IR samples a useless > exercise though ;)
Well, in my opinion it is kind of useless. I don't see any use case or any demand for passing this kind of information to userspace, at least in the LIRC context. If there's no demand, why bother?
Christoph
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