Am 14.10.2013 14:57, schrieb Tom Gundersen: > Hi guys, > > As lirc package is currently an orphan, I thought I'd had a look at it > to see if we can clean it up. > > Most of the lirc kernel drivers are now upstream, so we only ship three of > them: > > *) lirc_atiusb: this overlaps with ati_remote [0] which is upstream. > This is bad as it means users will essentially get a random driver > loaded unless one of the two are blacklisted. Moreover, it is not > possible to use both driver at the same time for different devices. > > It seems to me based on [1], that there is reason to doubt the > validity of the modaliases that lirc_atiusb supports but ati_remote > does not. I therefore suggest we drop lirc_atiusb and if there is > fallout from this we try to fix that in ati_remote upstream (e.g. add > missing modaliases). > > *) lirc_i2c: this was removed from staging in [2], as the > functionality is replaced by ir-kbd-i2c (which appears to be written > mostly by the same people). I suggest we remove this driver too as it > appears to be redundant (though it has no autoloading support as far > as I can tell, so probably less harmful). > > *) lirc_wpc8769l: I suggest we keep this as the only remaining module > for now. Based on comments in winbond-cir [3], that driver can > probably be extended to support WEC102* (WPC8769L is WEC1020). I'll > get in touch with the maintainers to check it out. > > Any comments? > > Tom > > [0] compare the aliases as shown by 'modinfo'. > [1] > <https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=5132088697fbfd1330facf723499091182f6ef91> > [2] > <https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=41ca2b1ac269e2ed64e2562b91fa61cab0b19e7a> > [3] > <https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/drivers/media/rc/winbond-cir.c#n5> Do the changes you think are best, I never used lirc in any way.
greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tp...@archlinux.org
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