On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 2:04 PM, Alan Cox [off-list ref] wrote:

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Jon is asking for an architecture discussion, y'know, with use cases.
Maxim seems to be saying it's obvious that what we have today works
fine. Except it doesn't appear that we have a consensus that
everything is fine, nor an obvious winner for how to reduce the
complexity here and keep the kernel in a happy, maintainable state for
the long haul.

The important point is that this is not an A or B discussion. There are
lots of ways to tackle it that are neither. If you look at things like
complex video format handling it is done in user space but with an
infrastructure to handle it.

I don't believe putting it in the kernel is the alternative to the
current setup. Cleaning up the way what we have today is presented to
applications is perfectly possible without a whole new pile of kernel
crap, because evdev was designed sensibly in the first place to allow
userspace added events.

So we're just back to the status quo of last year which is to do
nothing except some minor clean up.

We'll be back here again next year repeating this until IR gets
redesigned into something fairly invisible like keyboard and mouse
drivers.

-- 
Jon Smirl
jonsmirl@gmail.com