Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 08 Dec 2009 22:04:55 -0200 | From | Mauro Carvalho Chehab <> | 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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Krzysztof Halasa wrote: > Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com> writes: > >> Why do you want to pull the 1KB default mapping table out of the >> device driver __init section and more it to a udev script? Now we will >> have to maintain a parallel udev script for ever receiver's device >> driver. > > Of course no. We will need a single program (script etc.) for all > devices. And we will need a database of the known remotes (scan and key > codes).
The keycode database can be easily extracted from kernel drivers by script. I have it already at V4L/DVB development tree.
>> You can handle that with __devinit > > __devinit is NOP with hot-plug. > > Fortunately we don't need the keymaps in the kernel. > For certain uses we may (and may not) need to have one keymap built-in, > perhaps something similar to the embedded initrd.
I still think the better is to have them in kernel, but compiled only if selected at Kbuild.
Cheers, Mauro.
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