On Thu, 27 Aug 2009, Devin Heitmueller wrote: > The biggest challenge with that approach is that lirc is still > maintained out-of-kernel, and the inputdev solution does not require > lirc at all (which is good for inexperienced end users who want their > product to "just work"). If distros started packing lirc as a basic system daemon things would generally just work too. After all, there is plenty of other user space software one needs to do anything. > The other big issue is that right now remotes get associated > automaticallywith products as part of the device profile. While this > has the disadvantage that there is not a uniform mechanism to specify > a different remote than the one that ships with the product, it does > have the advantage of the product working "out-of-the-box" with > whatever remote it came with. It's a usability issue, but what I > would consider a pretty important one. lirc isn't limited to one remote at a time. You can have many different remotes supported at once. So it's not always necessary to know which remote you have before the remote will work. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
