2009/8/28 Peter Brouwer [off-list ref]:

Would like to add one more dimension to the discussion.

The situation of having multiple DVB type boards in one system.

Using one remote would be enough to control the system. So we should have a
mechanism/kernel config option, to enable/disable an IR device on a board.
For multiple boards of the same type, enable the first and disable any
subsequently detected boards.

Don't forget that completely different boards can have identical
remotes. For example the RTL2831 driver has an almost identical copy
of dvb-usb IR code in it. See here for in depth explanation and patch
that makes it use dvb-usb instead:
http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/38794/

Now I'm not really familiar with frontends and tuners so it may be
that the RTL driver should be reimplemented within dvb-usb instead,
but if it can't be it would be nice if that IR code could be shared
without pulling in all the rest of dvb-usb modules too. I'm told that
the excessive code duplication is the reason this driver isn't in
mainline yet - I've been using it with no problems for over two years
now.

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Alistair Buxton
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