[arch-dev-public] lirc kernel drivers

[Tobias Powalowski]

Am 14.10.2013 14:57, schrieb Tom Gundersen:
> Hi guys,
>
> As lirc package is currently an orphan, I thought I'd had a look at it
> to see if we can clean it up.
>
> Most of the lirc kernel drivers are now upstream, so we only ship three of them:
>
>  *) lirc_atiusb: this overlaps with ati_remote [0] which is upstream.
> This is bad as it means users will essentially get a random driver
> loaded unless one of the two are blacklisted. Moreover, it is not
> possible to use both driver at the same time for different devices.
>
> It seems to me based on [1], that there is reason to doubt the
> validity of the modaliases that lirc_atiusb supports but ati_remote
> does not. I therefore suggest we drop lirc_atiusb and if there is
> fallout from this we try to fix that in ati_remote upstream (e.g. add
> missing modaliases).
>
> *) lirc_i2c: this was removed from staging in [2], as the
> functionality is replaced by ir-kbd-i2c (which appears to be written
> mostly by the same people). I suggest we remove this driver too as it
> appears to be redundant (though it has no autoloading support as far
> as I can tell, so probably less harmful).
>
> *) lirc_wpc8769l: I suggest we keep this as the only remaining module
> for now. Based on comments in winbond-cir [3], that driver can
> probably be extended to support WEC102* (WPC8769L is WEC1020). I'll
> get in touch with the maintainers to check it out.
>
> Any comments?
>
> Tom
>
> [0] compare the aliases as shown by 'modinfo'.
> [1] <https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=5132088697fbfd1330facf723499091182f6ef91>
> [2] <https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=41ca2b1ac269e2ed64e2562b91fa61cab0b19e7a>
> [3] <https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/drivers/media/rc/winbond-cir.c#n5>
Do the changes you think are best,
I never used lirc in any way.

greetings
tpowa

-- 
Tobias Powalowski
Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa)
http://www.archlinux.org
tpowa at archlinux.org


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