Darren Salt wrote: > I demand that Dyks, Axel (XL) may or may not have written... > > >>Darren Salt wrote: >> >>>I demand that Dyks, Axel (XL) may or may not have written... >>> >>>>The later (dev/input) worked for me at least after enabling "input device >>>>events" (INPUT_EVDEV=y) in the kernel. [...] > > >>>>Furthermore it seems to be a good idea to add a "udev" rule that creates >>>>a symlink for the "event device" of your remote. [...] > > >>>You might have /dev/input/by-id/* and /dev/input/by-name/*, but I find >>>that by-id isn't populated for DVB IR whereas by-name isn't stable despite >>>no change in the number or location of the devices. > > >>No, I haven't. [...] > > > They're provided by /etc/udev/rules.d/z20_persistent-input.rules (which > points to ../persistent-input.rules) in current Debian testing/unstable. Ah ... I'm on gentoo, which obviously does not provide those rules ... Anyway, I was refering to the sysfs nodes that are less likely to depend on the distribution than on the kernel (version) ... > >>>While I could use udev rules, I prefer this patch: >>><URL:http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=305444&aid=1434830&group_id=5444> > > >>Hmmh ... why should someone want to apply a patch, if the solution comes >>out of the (udev) box? Maybe I've got you wrong, but presently I can't >>follow your argument. > > > Alternative methods; for one thing, not everybody is using udev. Hmm... that's an argument? ... > > In my case, it needs to be done on the card's physical location because I > have two identical cards; if I move the card with the in-use IR interface, I > still have to update the configuration anyway, and having lircd look at the > available input device nodes means that I don't have to remember to recreate > a symlink. ... OK this one counts. :-) > > (Also, I prefer /dev/hda to /dev/disk/... which reminds me a lot of devfs's > long paths.) > ... as long as you are not hot-plugging your disks ... :-) ByTheWay: We are "sightly" drifting away from the original topic and I'm afraid that our discussion tends to become absolutely useless ... though I must admit that it's a lot of fun, and ... if we try really hard we might be able to beat the all-time-thread-length-record (see the "Multi protocol support / DVB-S2 API" thread which definitely will make it into the hall of fame) Cheers -- at least you may demand that I may or may not have said this ... :-) Axel P. S.: May I deduce that you are able to explain why the sofa irreversibly stuck on the staircase? _______________________________________________ linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
