[pvrusb2] The continuing saga of IR support on the HVR-1950 ...

[Mike Isely]

On Mon, 12 Jan 2009, Mike Isely wrote:

> On Mon, 12 Jan 2009, roccomoretti wrote:
> 
> > I asked about the issues I am having with IR receiver support on the 
> > HVR-1950 over at the lirc mailing list 
> > (http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=4969265A.5040405%40hotpop.com&forum_name=lirc-list). 
> > 
> > 
> > The response that I got there was that the difficulties I'm seeing are 
> > due to the pvrusb2 driver misidentifying the hardware. Supposedly the 
> > I2C id in pvrusb2-i2c-core.c should be changed "to something more 
> > useful" (details in link above).
> 
> First I've heard of this.  Someone should tell me these things.
> 
> As for that "card ID", it dates from the early days of the driver and 
> really there was no other semi-reasonable choice.  That is probably 

> better now and I'll look into it.  But really, if an LIRC sees a 
> problem, he should tell me about it...

That last bit should have read: "But really, if an LIRC developer sees a 
problem, he should tell me about it..."

  -Mike


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