HAL and INPUT

[Richard Hughes]

On Thu, 2007-07-05 at 15:50 +0200, Arnaud Quette wrote:
> [adding the LIRC list]
> 
> 2007/7/3, Richard Hughes <hughsient at gmail.com>:
> > Or we can rip out all the input parts from HAL (but keep keymap) and
> > just reply on querying XOrg for buttons and state.
> >
> > Comments please,
> 
> as a side note, I'm also interested in this, since I'm considering the
> inclusion of Remote Controls support through LIRC. Any input welcome.

LIRC is userspace. Is it possible for LIRC to squirt the data back to
the kernel using uinput and then we can all just use INPUT or X?

Richard.