On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 16:17 +0100, Filippo Argiolas wrote:
> Hi, my last messages have been almost ignored.. so I'm opening a new
> thread. Please refer to the other thread [wintv nova-t stick, dib0700
> and remote controllers] for more info.
>
> Here is a brief summary of the problem as far as I can understand:
> - when a keypress event is received the device stores its data somewhere
> - every 150ms dib0700_rc_query reads this data
> - since there is nothing that resets device memory if no key is being
> pressed anymore device still stores the data from the last keypress
> event
> - to prevent having false keypresses the driver reads rc5 toggle bit
> that changes from 0 to 1 and viceversa when a new key is pressed or when
> the same key is released and pressed again. So it ignores everything
> until the toggle bit changes. The right behavior should be "repeat last
> key until toggle bit changes", but cannot be done since last data still
> stored would be considered as a repeat even if nothing is pressed.
> - this way it ignores even repeated key events (when a key is holded
> down)
> - this approach is wrong because it works just for rc5 (losing repeat
> feature..) but doesn't work for example with nec remotes that don't set
> the toggle bit and use a different system.
>
> The patch solves it calling dib0700_rc_setup after each poll resetting
> last key data from the device. I've also implemented repeated key
> feature (with repeat delay to avoid unwanted double hits) for rc-5 and
> nec protocols. It also contains some keymap for the remotes I've used
> for testing (a philipps compatible rc5 remote and a teac nec remote).
> They are far from being complete since I've used them just for testing.
>
> Thanks for reading this,
> Let me know what do you think about it,
Hi all,
I believe that we could we agree that this patch
* does not break anything,
* does what it says it should do,
* works fine,
* is coded properly wrt the v4l-dvb guideline,
* got enough feedback.
Could the powers that be merge it?
Many thanks.
Nico
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