On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 09:37:19AM -0400, Jon Smirl wrote:
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> 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).

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Dmitry
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