Re: (subset) [PATCH v10 0/6] Improve pwm-ir-tx precision

[Sean Young <sean@mess.org>]

On Wed, Dec 20, 2023 at 05:09:46PM +0100, Thierry Reding wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 20, 2023 at 05:06:06PM +0100, Thierry Reding wrote:
> > On Tue, 19 Dec 2023 16:30:23 +0000, Sean Young wrote:
> > > The pwm-ir-tx driver has to turn the pwm signal on and off, and suffers
> > > from delays as this is done in process context. Make this work in atomic
> > > context.
> > > 
> > > changes:
> > > 
> > > v10:
> > >  - Uwe Kleine-König review comments/fixes
> > > 
> > > [...]
> > 
> > Applied, thanks!
> > 
> > [6/6] media: pwm-ir-tx: Trigger edges from hrtimer interrupt context
> >       commit: 363d0e56285e80cda997d41d94c22313b673557d
> 
> Hi Sean,
> 
> I actually applied all of them (except I took patch 5 from v11), not
> sure why b4 only kept track of patch 6.

Great, thank you. I'm very pleased about this: the pwm-ir-tx driver
now produces an prefect signal on rpi. The alternative driver, gpio-ir-tx,
bitbangs and holds the cpu under spinlock for 100ms or however long the
signal is, which is just a disaster (for e.g. real time linux). This gives
us a way out.

> Mauro didn't reply when I asked
> whether he's okay with me picking this up into the PWM tree, but given
> that you're the pwm-ir-tx maintainer I think that'll be fine. If not I
> can back this out again.

Mauro is not very responsive nowadays, but I'm sure it's fine.


Sean