I had to rework this portion of code several times in the IR code I posted. I had the core provide input_ir_queue() which was legal to call from interrupt context. Calling from interrupt context was an important aspect I missed in the first versions. I made this a common routine so that the code didn't get copied into all of the drivers. This code should have used kfifo but I didn't know about kfifo. >>The question is though, is the kfifo and work handler really necessary? Yes, otherwise it will get duplicated into all of the drivers that run in interrupt context like this GPIO one. Put this common code into the core so that the individual drivers writers don't mess it up. void input_ir_queue(struct input_dev *dev, int sample) { unsigned int next; spin_lock(dev->ir->queue.lock); dev->ir->queue.samples[dev->ir->queue.head] = sample; next = dev->ir->queue.head + 1; dev->ir->queue.head = (next >= MAX_SAMPLES ? 0 : next); spin_unlock(dev->ir->queue.lock); schedule_work(&dev->ir->work); } My GPIO implementation simply call input_it_queue() with the timing data. I collapsed multiple long space interrupts into one very long space. If you are using protocol engines, there is no need to detect the long trailing space. The protocol engine will trigger on the last pulse of the signal. On the other hand, LIRC in user space needs the last long space to know when to flush the buffer from kernel space into user space. The timeout for this flush should be implemented in the LIRC compatibility driver, not ir-core. In this case my GPIO driver doesn't ever generate an event for the long space at the end of the message (because it doesn't end). Instead the LIRC compatibility layer should start a timer and flush when no data has been received for 200ms or whatever. static irqreturn_t dpeak_ir_irq(int irq, void *_ir) { struct ir_gpt *ir_gpt = _ir; int sample, count, delta, bit, wrap; sample = in_be32(&ir_gpt->regs->status); out_be32(&ir_gpt->regs->status, 0xF); count = sample >> 16; wrap = (sample >> 12) & 7; bit = (sample >> 8) & 1; delta = count - ir_gpt->previous; delta += wrap * 0x10000; ir_gpt->previous = count; if (bit) delta = -delta; input_ir_queue(ir_gpt->input, delta); return IRQ_HANDLED; } For MSMCE I converted their format back into simple delays and fed it into input_ir_queue(). This was not done in interrupt context because of the way USB works. input_ir_queue() doesn't care - it works correctly when called from either context. if (ir->last.command == 0x80) { bit = ((ir->buf_in[i] & MCE_PULSE_BIT) != 0); delta = (ir->buf_in[i] & MCE_PULSE_MASK) * MCE_TIME_BASE; if ((ir->buf_in[i] & MCE_PULSE_MASK) == 0x7f) { if (ir->last.bit == bit) ir->last.delta += delta; else { ir->last.delta = delta; ir->last.bit = bit; } continue; } delta += ir->last.delta; ir->last.delta = 0; ir->last.bit = bit; dev_dbg(&ir->usbdev->dev, "bit %d delta %d\n", bit, delta); if (bit) delta = -delta; input_ir_queue(ir->input, delta); } These delay messages are then fed into the protocol engines which process the pulses in parallel. Processing in parallel works, because that's how IR receivers work. When you shine a remote on an equipment rack, all of the equipment sees the command in parallel. The protocols are designed so that parallel decode works properly. -- Jon Smirl jonsmirl@xxxxxxxxx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html