Jarod Wilson wrote: > Eric Sandeen wrote: >> Jarod Wilson wrote: >>> Hey all, >>> >>> So... As I've mentioned on various forums here and there in the >>> recent past, I'd really like to see fedora carry the lirc drivers >>> (http://www.lirc.org/) in-kernel, and help push them into the >>> upstream kernel. I finally got around to doing something significant >>> about it this evening. The link below is the completion of my first >>> attempt at a patch tailored for upstream, based partially on work >>> done by Mario Limonciello for Ubuntu (cc'd). >>> >>> http://people.redhat.com/jwilson/lirc/linux-2.6-lirc.patch >> >> Cool, I tossed a few build-related fixes (warnings, deprecated >> interfaces/flags, etc..) on top of this up at >> >> http://people.redhat.com/esandeen/lirc/ > > Very nice. Gah, at least one of those fixes some things I screwed up > merging in the latest bits from cvs... > >> (There's also usb stuff going on I don't understand in the commandir >> driver :) but with the warning about the callback it will probably >> explode when run.) > > Hrm, that's not so good... I was thinking of seeing if I could find one > somewhere for cheap, but ouch, those things look pricey... > > http://www.commandir.com/order/ > >> Also given that each subdir under drivers/input/lirc generally has just >> one .c file, I'd probably flatten it out, and drop everything into >> drivers/input/lirc/*.c > > Yeah, that idea crossed my mind too after I'd sent the mail off before > drifting off to sleep. I'll do that for the next rendition. > >> Also in Kconfig, INPUT_LIRC and LIRC_DEV seem a little redundant - >> perhaps each individual driver should just do "select LIRC_DEV" rather >> than "depends on?" and remove the prompt for LIRC_DEV? > > Sounds like a good idea to me. All of the work Eric and I did over the weekend is now in a proper git tree, which can be browsed (and cloned) here: http://git.wilsonet.com/linux-2.6-lirc.git/ A few more clean-ups and we'll slap this puppy into an actual rawhide kernel build to start getting some wider testing... -- Jarod Wilson jwilson@xxxxxxxxxx
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