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    [media] redrat3: new rc-core IR transceiver device driver · 2154be65
    Jarod Wilson authored
    This is a new rc-core device driver for the IR transceivers made by
    RedRat Ltd. (http://redrat.co.uk/). It started out life as an
    out-of-lirc-tree lirc driver, maintained in its own repo on sourceforge,
    by Stephen Cox. He started porting it to what was then ir-core, and I
    finally picked it up about two week ago and did a fairly large overhaul
    on it, and its now into a state where I'm fairly comfortable submitting
    it here for review and inclusion in the kernel. I'm claiming authorship
    of this driver, since while it started out as Stephen's work, its
    definitely a derivative work now, at 876 lines added and 1698 lines
    removed since grabbing it from sourceforge. Stephen's name is retained
    as secondary author though, and credited in the headers. Those
    interested in seeing how the changes evolved can (at least for now) look
    at this branch in my git tree:
    
    http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/jarod/linux-2.6-ir.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/redrat3
    
    That won't be around forever though, and I'm doing this as a single
    commit to go into mainline. Anyway...
    
    I've successfully tested in-kernel decode of rc5, rc6 and nec remotes,
    as well as lirc userspace decode of rc5 and rc6. There are still some
    quirks here to sort out with rc5 lirc userspace decode, but I'm working
    with the RedRat folks themselves to figure out what's going on there
    (rc5 lirc decode works, but you only get an event on key release --
    in-kernel rc5 decode behaves perfectly fine). Note that lirc decode of
    rc6 is working perfectly. Transmit is also working, tested by pointing
    the redrat3 at an mceusb transceiver, which happily picked up the
    transmitted signals and properly decoded them.
    
    There's no default remote for this hardware, so its somewhat arbitrarily
    set to use the Hauppauge RC5 keymap by default. Easily changed out by
    way of ir-keytable and irrelevant if you're using lircd for decode.
    
    CC: Chris Dodge <chris@redrat.co.uk>
    CC: Andrew Vincer <Andrew.Vincer@redrat.co.uk>
    CC: Stephen Cox <scox_nz@yahoo.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJarod Wilson <jarod@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
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