Re: Suggestions for reporting remote control button presses to userland

[Jason Thorpe <thorpej%shagadelic.org@localhost>]

On Oct 7, 2008, at 4:06 PM, Jared D. McNeill wrote:

> Hey folks --
>
> I have a 24-button IR remote control here that I want to use with  
> NetBSD. My driver decodes the key presses, but I don't know how to  
> deliver them to userland. wskbd seems a bit heavy, and even if there  
> was an easier way I'm not sure how I would represent a button named  
> eg. "DVD menu" or "Guide" with wskbd.
>
> I've hooked the volume buttons into pmf for volume control, but what  
> about the remaining 22 buttons?

Pass the data through to userland in the raw, and drive everything  
from a userland app.

> Cheers,
> Jared

-- thorpej