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diff --git a/Documentation/media/uapi/rc/rc-intro.rst b/Documentation/media/uapi/rc/rc-intro.rst deleted file mode 100644 index 37c5f90c76e7..000000000000 --- a/Documentation/media/uapi/rc/rc-intro.rst +++ /dev/null @@ -1,31 +0,0 @@ -.. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this -.. document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, -.. Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software -.. Foundation, with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts -.. and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included at -.. Documentation/media/uapi/fdl-appendix.rst. -.. -.. TODO: replace it to GFDL-1.1-or-later WITH no-invariant-sections - -.. _Remote_controllers_Intro: - -************ -Introduction -************ - -Currently, most analog and digital devices have a Infrared input for -remote controllers. Each manufacturer has their own type of control. It -is not rare for the same manufacturer to ship different types of -controls, depending on the device. - -A Remote Controller interface is mapped as a normal evdev/input -interface, just like a keyboard or a mouse. So, it uses all ioctls -already defined for any other input devices. - -However, remove controllers are more flexible than a normal input -device, as the IR receiver (and/or transmitter) can be used in -conjunction with a wide variety of different IR remotes. - -In order to allow flexibility, the Remote Controller subsystem allows -controlling the RC-specific attributes via -:ref:`the sysfs class nodes <remote_controllers_sysfs_nodes>`. |