Jarod Wilson wrote: > On Dec 2, 2009, at 4:12 PM, Trent Piepho wrote: > >> On Wed, 2 Dec 2009, Jarod Wilson wrote: >>>>> My main point is that each of these devices has device ID that can be >>>>> determined without having to first do some protocol analysis and table >>>>> lookups to figure out which "device" some random IR input is actually >>>>> coming from. >>>>> >>>> Heh, right back at ya ;) The fact that you need to do some more work >>>> to separate 2 physical devices does not mean it should not be done. >>> No, but it means added complexity inside the kernel. I'm questioning >>> whether the added complexity is worth it, when I doubt the vast majority of >>> users would take advantage of it, and it can already be done in userspace. >>> Although... Damn. The userspace approach would only work if the device were >>> passing raw IR to userspace, so in the in-kernel decoding case, yeah, I >>> guess you'd need separate input devices for each remote to use them >>> independently. Meh. Doubt I'd ever use it, but I guess I'll concede that it >>> makes some sense to do the extra work. >> You just need to send a tuple that contrains the keycode plus some kind of >> id for the remote it came from. That's what I did for lirc, it decodes the >> sparc/mark into a remote id and key code tuple. It's certainly a common >> thing to want. Anyone who has existing remotes and components that use >> them would want it. > > What for, exactly? > >> You don't want your computer turning off when you push >> the power button on the DVD player's remote, do you? > > No, I don't.
In this specific case, IMO, the default keytables should map the power button to KEY_POWER2. > > Perhaps we should clarify something here. Are we intending to auto-create > a new input device for every IR command set we see arrive at the IR receiver? > I've been assuming we're not going to willy-nilly just auto-create a new > device > for every IR signal we happen to catch passing by. The receiver should only > be passing along input events for the codeset/remote I've told it to listen > for (which by default, is the codes for the receiver's bundled remote). Yes, but several bundled IR's have a power button. By default, it doesn't make sense to use it to turn the machine off, so KEY_POWER2 is a good option. > Otherwise, yeah, I'm going to wind up with my htpc powering off when > I hit the button on my harmony remote that is supposed to turn off my tv and > amp. Cheers, Mauro. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
