On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 10:09:44AM -0500, Stephen Wilson wrote: > Andy Walls <awalls@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > On Wed, 2011-02-16 at 01:16 -0500, Stephen Wilson wrote: > >> Having the RC_CORE config default to INPUT is almost equivalent to > >> saying "yes". Default to "no" instead. > >> > >> Signed-off-by: Stephen Wilson <wilsons@xxxxxxxx> > > > > I don't particularly like this, if it discourages desktop distributions > > from building RC_CORE. The whole point of RC_CORE in kernel was to have > > the remote controllers bundled with TV and DTV cards "just work" out of > > the box for end users. Also the very popular MCE USB receiver device, > > shipped with Media Center PC setups, needs it too. > > A similar argument can be made for any particular feature or device that > just works when the functionality is enabled :) > > > Why exactly do you need it set to "No"? > > It is not a need. I simply observed that after the IR_ to RC_ rename > there was another set of drivers being built which I did not ask for. So disable them. I think most people would rather have this support enabled so that remotes Just Work if a DTV card or stand-alone IR receiver is plugged in without having to hunt back through Kconfig options to figure out why it doesn't... > It struck me as odd that because basic keyboard/mouse support was > enabled I also got support for DTV card remote controls. > > I don't think there are any other driver subsystems enabling themselves > based on something as generic as INPUT (as a dependency it is just fine, > obviously). > > Overall, it just seems like the wrong setting to me. Is there another > predicate available that makes a bit more sense for RC_CORE other than > INPUT? Something related to the TV or DTV cards perhaps? No. As Andy said, there are stand-alone devices, such as the Windows Media Center Ed. eHome Infrared Transceivers which are simply a usb device, no direct relation to any TV devices. A fair number of systems these days are also shipping with built-in CIR support by way of a sub-function on an LPC SuperIO chip. Remotes can be used to control more than just changing channels on a TV tuner card (think music player, video playback app streaming content from somewhere on the network, etc). -- Jarod Wilson jarod@xxxxxxxxxx -- 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
