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SubjectRe: [RFC] What are the goals for the architecture of an in-kernel IR system?
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On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 06:50:26AM -0400, Andy Walls wrote:
> If you're waiting for me to get that working, I'll advise you to plan on
> getting off the couch and pushing the power switch for some time to
> come. ;)

:-)

On Friday 09 April 2010 14:01:46 Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> The additions at IR core, if needed [1], shouldn't be hard, but the main
> changes should happen at the hardware driver level. There's no current
> plans for it, at least from my side, but, let's see if some hardware
> driver developers want to implement it on the corresponding driver.
>
> [1] Basically, a keycode (like KEY_POWER) could be used to wake up the
> machine. So, by associating some scancode to KEY_POWER via ir-core, the
> driver can program the hardware to wake up the machine with the
> corresponding scancode. I can't see a need for a change at ir-core to
> implement such behavior. Of course, some attributes at sysfs can be added
> to enable or disable this feature, and to control the associated logic,
> but we first need to implement the wakeup feature at the hardware driver,
> and then adding some logic at ir-core to add the non-hardware specific
> code there.

Thanks for the info Mauro.

Cheers
James
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