Re: [RFC] What are the goals for the architecture of an in-kernelIR system?

[Dmitry Torokhov]

On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 02:57:15PM +0100, Krzysztof Halasa wrote:
> Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > Why woudl we want to do this? Quite often there is a need for "observer"
> > that maybe does not act on data but allows capturing it. Single-user
> > inetrfaces are PITA.
> 
> Lircd can work as a multiplexer. 

What this has to do with my statement? Did you mean retransmitter of sorts?

Also I may explicitely not want the data stream to be multiplexed...

> IMHO single-open lirc interface is ok,
> though we obviously need simultaneous operation of in-kernel decoders.

Why is the distinction?

-- 
Dmitry
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