On Sun 2009-12-06 12:59:00, Christoph Bartelmus wrote: > Hi Dmitry, > > on 05 Dec 09 at 22:55, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > [...] > > I do not believe you are being realistic. Sometimes we just need to say > > that the device is a POS and is just not worth it. Remember, there is > > still "lirc hole" for the hard core people still using solder to produce > > something out of the spare electronic components that may be made to > > work (never mind that it causes the CPU constantly poll the device, not > > letting it sleep and wasting electricity as a result - just hypotetical > > example here). > > The still seems to be is a persistent misconception that the home-brewn > receivers need polling or cause heavy CPU load. No they don't. All of them > are IRQ based. I have at least one that needs polling/signal processing... somewhere. IR LED connected to mic input. Anyway, clearly hacked-up devices like that are better left for userland solutions. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- 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
