Stefan Richter wrote: > Jon Smirl wrote: >> We have one IR receiver device and multiple remotes. How does the >> input system know how many devices to create corresponding to how many >> remotes you have? > > If several remotes are to be used on the same receiver, then they > necessarily need to generate different scancodes, don't they? Otherwise > the input driver wouldn't be able to route their events to the > respective subdevice. But if they do generate different scancodes, > there is no need to create subdevices just for EVIOCSKEYCODE's sake. (It > might still be desirable to have subdevices for other reasons perhaps.) PS, forgot to add: If there is a real need to initiate device creation from userspace, then ioctl is not the way to go. -- Stefan Richter -=====-==--= =-== ===-- http://arcgraph.de/sr/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-input" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
