Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 10 Sep 2008 10:30:54 -0400 | From | Dmitry Torokhov <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 06/18] lirc driver for the ATI USB RF remote receiver |
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On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 09:37:19AM -0400, Jon Smirl wrote: > A second issue is that some IR drivers are completely in user space. > Is there a mechanism for these user space drivers to send events down > into the input layer? These events would then get queued with the > other kernel generated events and be delivered to consuming apps in > order. >
Uinput driver (/dev/uinput, drivers/input/misc/uinput.c) can be used to inject events into kernel for subsequent distribution through normal interfaces (console, evdev, etc).
-- Dmitry
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