Re: [linux-usb-devel] USB IR receivers and evdev

2007-02-13 Thread Ville Syrjälä
On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 10:59:29PM +0100, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: > On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 11:44:35PM +0200, Ville Syrjälä wrote: > > > > I poked around in what meager uinput doc I could find. It is not clear > > > if events fed into uinput appear on their own evdev device or if they > > > get merg

Re: [linux-usb-devel] USB IR receivers and evdev

2007-02-13 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 11:44:35PM +0200, Ville Syrjälä wrote: > > I poked around in what meager uinput doc I could find. It is not clear > > if events fed into uinput appear on their own evdev device or if they > > get merged into another stream. uinput is designed to allow for creation of virtu

Re: [linux-usb-devel] USB IR receivers and evdev

2007-02-13 Thread Ville Syrjälä
On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 03:32:38PM -0500, Jon Smirl wrote: > On 2/13/07, Ville Syrjälä <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > AFAIK with uinput the apps doesn't need any special code. The only > > difference to in-kernel evdev drivers is that the actual device driver > > lives in a user space daemon. S

Re: [linux-usb-devel] USB IR receivers and evdev

2007-02-13 Thread Jon Smirl
On 2/13/07, Ville Syrjälä <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 10:37:10AM -0500, Jon Smirl wrote: > > On 2/13/07, Ville Syrjälä <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 10:10:07PM -0500, Jon Smirl wrote: > > > > On 2/12/07, Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >

Re: [linux-usb-devel] USB IR receivers and evdev

2007-02-13 Thread Ville Syrjälä
On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 10:37:10AM -0500, Jon Smirl wrote: > On 2/13/07, Ville Syrjälä <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 10:10:07PM -0500, Jon Smirl wrote: > > > On 2/12/07, Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 03:20:20PM -0500, Jon Smirl wrote: >

Re: [linux-usb-devel] USB IR receivers and evdev

2007-02-13 Thread Jon Smirl
On 2/13/07, Ville Syrjälä <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 10:10:07PM -0500, Jon Smirl wrote: > > On 2/12/07, Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 03:20:20PM -0500, Jon Smirl wrote: > > > > Most drivers for USB IR remote controls are out of tree. They

Re: [linux-usb-devel] USB IR receivers and evdev

2007-02-13 Thread Ville Syrjälä
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 10:10:07PM -0500, Jon Smirl wrote: > On 2/12/07, Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 03:20:20PM -0500, Jon Smirl wrote: > > > Most drivers for USB IR remote controls are out of tree. They are located > > > here: > > > http://www.lirc.org/ > > > >

Re: [linux-usb-devel] USB IR receivers and evdev

2007-02-12 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 10:10:07PM -0500, Jon Smirl wrote: > On 2/12/07, Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 03:20:20PM -0500, Jon Smirl wrote: > >> Most drivers for USB IR remote controls are out of tree. They are > >located here: > >> http://www.lirc.org/ > >> > >> Why

[linux-usb-devel] USB IR receivers and evdev

2007-02-12 Thread Jon Smirl
On 2/12/07, Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 03:20:20PM -0500, Jon Smirl wrote: > > Most drivers for USB IR remote controls are out of tree. They are located > > here: > > http://www.lirc.org/ > > > > Why aren't these in-tree? > > Because the lirc developers do not have