Jon Smirl wrote: > I'm looking at a Sony multi-function remote right now. It has five > devices and forty keys. Each of the five devices can transmit 0-9, > power, volume, etc. It transmits 5*40 = 200 unique scancodes. > > I want the five devices to correspond to five apps. What's the plan > for splitting those 200 scancodes into the five apps? > > I did it by creating five evdev devices each mapping 40 scancodes. > That's lets me reuse KP_1 for each of the five apps. > > In this case, the evdev interface won't solve the issue alone. Some sort of userspace tool will need to identify what application is expecting that code and redirect it to that application. IMO, the biggest LIRC benefit over a pure evdev interface, from user's perspective, is that it can redirect a keycode to a specific application. Yet, I don't see why your configfs proposal will solve this issue, as userspace will keep receiving duplicated KET_ -- 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
