Re: [RFC] Should we create a raw input interface for IR's ? - Was: Re: [PATCH 1/3 v2] lirc core device driver infrastructure

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Hi Gerd,

on 26 Nov 09 at 00:22, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
[...]
>> To sum it up: I don't think this information will be useful at all for
>> lircd or anyone else.
[...]
> I know that lircd does matching instead of decoding, which allows to
> handle unknown encodings.  Thats why I think there will always be cases
> which only lircd will be able to handle (using raw samples).
>
> That doesn't make attempts to actually decode the IR samples a useless
> exercise though ;)

Well, in my opinion it is kind of useless. I don't see any use case or any  
demand for passing this kind of information to userspace, at least in the  
LIRC context.
If there's no demand, why bother?

Christoph
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