From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from pequod.mess.org ([80.229.237.210]:45543 "EHLO pequod.mess.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751379AbaAVVA1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Jan 2014 16:00:27 -0500 Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 21:00:24 +0000 From: Sean Young To: Antti =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sepp=E4l=E4?= Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab , linux-media@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] rc: Adding support for sysfs wakeup scancodes Message-ID: <20140122210024.GA3223@pequod.mess.org> References: <20140115173559.7e53239a@samsung.com> <1390246787-15616-1-git-send-email-a.seppala@gmail.com> <20140121122826.GA25490@pequod.mess.org> <20140122162953.GA1665@pequod.mess.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-media-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 09:10:58PM +0200, Antti Seppälä wrote: > On 22 January 2014 18:29, Sean Young wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 05:46:28PM +0200, Antti Seppälä wrote: > >> On 21 January 2014 14:28, Sean Young wrote: > >> > On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 09:39:43PM +0200, Antti Seppälä wrote: > >> >> This patch series introduces a simple sysfs file interface for reading > >> >> and writing wakeup scancodes to rc drivers. > >> >> > >> >> This is an improved version of my previous patch for nuvoton-cir which > >> >> did the same thing via module parameters. This is a more generic > >> >> approach allowing other drivers to utilize the interface as well. > >> >> > >> >> I did not port winbond-cir to this method of wakeup scancode setting yet > >> >> because I don't have the hardware to test it and I wanted first to get > >> >> some comments about how the patch series looks. I did however write a > >> >> simple support to read and write scancodes to rc-loopback module. > >> > > >> > Doesn't the nuvoton-cir driver need to know the IR protocol for wakeup? > >> > > >> > This is needed for winbond-cir; I guess this should be another sysfs > >> > file, something like "wakeup_protocol". Even if the nuvoton can only > >> > handle one IR protocol, maybe it should be exported (readonly) via > >> > sysfs? > >> > > >> > I'm happy to help with a winbond-cir implementation; I have the hardware. > >> > > >> > > >> > Sean > >> > >> Nuvoton-cir doesn't care about the IR protocol because the hardware > >> compares raw IR pulse lengths and wakes the system if received pulse > >> is within certain tolerance of the one pre-programmed to the HW. This > >> approach is agnostic to the used IR protocol. > > > > Your patch talks about scancodes which is something entirely different. > > This should be renamed to something better. > > > > I agree that for the nuvoton my choice of wording (scancode) was a > poor one. Perhaps wakeup_code would suit both drivers? > > > So with the nuvoton you program a set of pulses and spaces; with the > > winbond you set the protocol and the scancode. I don't think there is > > any shared code here. Maybe it's better to implement the wakeup > > sysfs files in the drivers themselves rather than in rcdev, I guess that > > depends on whether there are other devices that implement similar > > functionality. > > > > The code to be shared is the logic of creating, parsing and formatting > the sysfs file. In the end the drivers are only interested in getting > a bunch of values to write to the hardware. > > I was thinking about adding another file (wakeup_protocol sounds good) > which would tell what semantics are used to interpret the contents of > wakeup_code file (rc6, rc5, nec or raw). Would this be a decent > solution? Good idea. I like it. Sean