Krzysztof Halasa wrote: > Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> Why do you want to pull the 1KB default mapping table out of the >> device driver __init section and more it to a udev script? Now we will >> have to maintain a parallel udev script for ever receiver's device >> driver. > > Of course no. We will need a single program (script etc.) for all > devices. And we will need a database of the known remotes (scan and key > codes). The keycode database can be easily extracted from kernel drivers by script. I have it already at V4L/DVB development tree. >> You can handle that with __devinit > > __devinit is NOP with hot-plug. > > Fortunately we don't need the keymaps in the kernel. > For certain uses we may (and may not) need to have one keymap built-in, > perhaps something similar to the embedded initrd. I still think the better is to have them in kernel, but compiled only if selected at Kbuild. Cheers, Mauro. -- 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
