Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] Apple remote support

[Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>]

Em 04-11-2010 15:38, David Härdeman escreveu:
> On Thu, Nov 04, 2010 at 11:54:25AM -0400, Jarod Wilson wrote:
>> Okay, so we seem to be in agreement for an approach to handling this.
>> I'll toss something together implementing that RSN... Though I talked
>> with Mauro about this a bit yesterday here at LPC, and we're thinking
>> maybe we slide this support back over into the nec decoder and make it
>> a slightly more generic "use full 32 bits" NEC variant we look for
>> and/or enable/disable somehow. I've got another remote here, for a
>> Motorola cable box, which is NEC-ish, but always fails decode w/a
>> checksum error ("got 0x00000000", iirc), which may also need to use
>> the full 32 bits somehow... Probably a very important protocol variant
>> to support, particularly once we have native transmit support, as its
>> used by plenty of cable boxes on the major carriers here in the US.
> 
> I've always found the "checksum" tests in the NEC decoder to be unnecessary so I'm all for using a 32 bit scancode in all cases (and still using a module param to squash the ID byte of apple remotes, defaulting to "yes").
> 
This means changing all existing NEC tables to have 32 bits, and add
the "redundant" information on all of them. It doesn't seem a good idea
to me to add a penalty for those NEC tables that follow the standard.

Mauro