[PATCH 0/3] Improve latency of IR decoding

[sean@mess.org (Sean Young)]

The current IR decoding is much too slow. Many IR protocols rely on
a trailing space for decoding (e.g. rc-6 needs to know when the bits
end). The trailing space is generated by the IR timeout, and if this
is longer than required, keys can be perceived as sticky and slugish.

The other issue the keyup timer. IR has no concept of a keyup message,
this is implied by the absence of IR. So, minimising the timeout for
this further improves the handling.

With these patches in place, using IR with the builtin decoders is much
improved and feels very snappy.

Sean Young (3):
  media: rc: set timeout to smallest value required by enabled protocols
  media: rc: add ioctl to get the current timeout
  media: rc: per-protocol repeat period and minimum keyup timer

 Documentation/media/uapi/rc/lirc-func.rst          |  1 +
 .../media/uapi/rc/lirc-set-rec-timeout.rst         | 14 +++--
 drivers/media/cec/cec-core.c                       |  2 +-
 drivers/media/rc/ir-imon-decoder.c                 |  1 +
 drivers/media/rc/ir-jvc-decoder.c                  |  1 +
 drivers/media/rc/ir-mce_kbd-decoder.c              |  1 +
 drivers/media/rc/ir-nec-decoder.c                  |  1 +
 drivers/media/rc/ir-rc5-decoder.c                  |  1 +
 drivers/media/rc/ir-rc6-decoder.c                  |  1 +
 drivers/media/rc/ir-sanyo-decoder.c                |  1 +
 drivers/media/rc/ir-sharp-decoder.c                |  1 +
 drivers/media/rc/ir-sony-decoder.c                 |  1 +
 drivers/media/rc/ir-xmp-decoder.c                  |  1 +
 drivers/media/rc/lirc_dev.c                        |  9 ++-
 drivers/media/rc/rc-core-priv.h                    |  1 +
 drivers/media/rc/rc-ir-raw.c                       | 31 +++++++++-
 drivers/media/rc/rc-main.c                         | 68 +++++++++++-----------
 include/uapi/linux/lirc.h                          |  6 ++
 18 files changed, 101 insertions(+), 41 deletions(-)

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