[mythtv-users] Yet another Fedora 12 lirc_serial question

Jarod Wilson jarod at wilsonet.com
Wed Apr 14 02:21:54 UTC 2010


On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 10:35 AM, R. G. Newbury <newbury at mandamus.org> wrote:
> On 04/13/2010 01:35 AM, Jarod Wilson wrote:
...
>> Nb: Real Soon Now, I'm going to start working on converting the mceusb
>> driver into an input layer driver... Well, actually, going to make it
>> a hybrid driver than can run as either a pure input layer driver or as
>> a native lirc device. We've just gotten rc5, rc5x and rc6 (as well as
>> nec and a few other) protocol decoders merged into the v4l-dvb git
>> tree, which I'm going to take advantage of to make the stock mce
>> remotes Just Work -- as well as adding support for the mce keyboard
>> (here's lookin' at you, jams!).
>>
>
> Jarod,
> This is 'my bad'.
> He said he was using FC12 and the lirc kernel module. He wrote 'kernel
> module'. I jumped to the mistaken conclusion that he was referring to the
> imon kernel module, notwithstanding the subject line (short attention span
> or something). So my suggestion is all wrong.

Heh, I figured it might be something like that... ;)

> Heh! 'Real Soon Now' is spelt 'Real Soon Now (c) Jerry Pournelle'!
>
> And will the Real Soon Now mceusb parallel the handling/structure of the
> imon.ko module?
>
> That will be Kewl!

Yeah, pretty much. The stock remote and the mce keyboard should Just
Work right out of the box via the input layer, and we'll have the
optional ability to still feed raw IR out to lircd for other remotes.
That's the plan, anyway.

-- 
Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com


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