[linux-dvb] Re: [PATCH] WinTV NovaT remote control

[John Pullan <jmp@tarantella.com>]

On Fri, 2004-05-28 at 23:33 +0200, Malte Doersam wrote:
> Hi,
> my NovaT (budget DVB-T card from Hauppauge) came with the remote control shown 
> in this picture: http://213.221.87.83/images/prod/media_mvp_small.gif
> 
> So I wrote a patch for budget-ci.c (patch is against dvb-linux HEAD)
> I couldn't resist to add a small comment to this file. (About the nonsense of 
> hardcoding scancodes) :-)

Do "we" have a strategy for implementing dynamic keymaps ? I did find
some code from Andrew Look, 

http://www.linuxtv.org/mailinglists/linux-dvb/2003/11-2003/msg00473.html

which implemented a similar scheme to the av7110_ir module for nova-t
cards.  The code seems to have been rejected for two reasons 

1) It didn't handle large mapping ranges (32 bit)
2) Vojtech Pavel had suggested doing it via ioctl's rather than /proc

I haven't found any reference to the ioctl way of doing that so I assume
that hasn't been implemented in the input layer(?)

So is the /proc they way to go  ?
Is anybody else considering working on this ?
Is it acceptable to do it on a per module (av7110, budget-ci) basis or
do we really want to try and abstract the functionality to a separate
module ?

-- 
John Pullan <jmp@tarantella.com>