On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 10:58:53AM +0300, Timo Kokkonen wrote:

It appears that all "modern" lirc drivers are now using the rc-core
functionalities to implement the common stuff. When the rx51 lirc driver
was first written, the core was not in place yet. Therefore it is
implementing the file operations in the driver, which other rc drivers
won't do today.

So, I think it would make sense to modify the rx51 driver to use the rc
core functionality. But if there is an ABI change ongoing, I could wait
until you have that done before I start working on the change?

There is no immediate need for porting to rc-core, AFAIK. OTOH I suspect 
that only some of the drivers using rc-core will only need to have their 
tx_ir method modified for a new sending/receiving ABI, so it shouldn't
stop you. If anything it might make the driver smaller.

At the moment I'm only just put initial patches together so I don't know 
when I or anyone else will have this finished. 


Sean