Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 26 Nov 2009 09:39:00 +0100 | From | Gerd Hoffmann <> | 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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On 11/26/09 08:28, Christoph Bartelmus wrote: > 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?
There have been complains about this getting lost somewhere in this thread, so it looks like there are people which do care.
cheers, Gerd
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