On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 23:37 +0200, Tino Keitel wrote: > On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 16:48:59 +0200, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote: > > [...] > > > If there is indeed a lirc driver for this providing all the > > functionality why would one ever want to have any appleir.patch in the > > future? I meant to pave the way for appleir to go in, but now I don't > > see a need for it as an in-kernel driver anymore. > > When I didn't had lirc running using the input device, some Gnome > thingie seemed to react on key presses, so that the volume could be > adjusted. With the hiddev, this won't work anymore, but I think that > this was just generic functionality because the appleir driver > generated the proper key events for volume adjustments, so nothing > specific to the Apple IR.
True, but I think everyone under linux expects infred stuff to work with lirc and there is probably already some userspace daemon translating remote control presses into keyboad presses... Soeren -- Sometimes, there's a moment as you're waking, when you become aware of the real world around you, but you're still dreaming.
