On Thu, May 06, 2021 at 01:44:52PM +0100, Sean Young wrote: > This is a new rc-core driver for the USB-UIRT which you can see here > http://www.usbuirt.com/ > > This device is supported in lirc, via the usb serial kernel driver. This > driver is both for rc-core, which means it can use kernel/BPF decoding > ec. Also this implement is superior because it can: > - support learning mode > - setting transmit carrier > - larger transmits using streaming tx command This looks like something which should have been implemented as a line-discipline or serdev driver instead of reimplementing a minimal on-off ftdi driver and tying it closely to the RC subsystem. Why can't you just add support for the above features to whatever subsystem is managing this device today? Serdev still doesn't support hotplugging unfortunately so that route may take a bit more work. Johan
