[ATrpms-users] Re: Lirc patch for mseusb

[Axel Thimm]

On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 02:17:34PM -0500, Keith C wrote:
> Since the lirc people don't seem to be moving very quickly to add  
> Martin Blatter's patch to the lirc_mceusb driver is there any chance  
> of getting it added to the atrpms package?
> 
> The patch supports the new MCE USB remote linked from Jarod's guide,  
> but that remote does not work without the patch (I left a ticket on  
> wilsonet about the problem, but Jarod hasn't changed the page to warn  
> people of the problem).
> 
> The patch is available at : http://blatter.com/mceusb/
> 
> It appears to support both the old and new MCE remotes.

I believe the reason that the patch has not been accepted by the lirc
developers is that it breaks something else, e.g. from
http://blatter.com/mceusb/INSTALL:

> It does not work with the older remotes, if you own an older remote
> that is not supported and you're willing to help me backporting the
> new (interrupt-driven) driver to the old remotes please contact me

Perhaps this has changed since, but it should better be
discussed/decided on lirc's lists.
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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