On May 3, 2011, at 5:52 PM, Devin Heitmueller wrote: > On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 4:46 PM, Jarod Wilson <jarod@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Yeah, good to have confirmation its got the same issue (and that >> it doesn't appear to be a simple case of flat batteries) >> >>> Jarod, send me your mailing address off-list, and I'll get a package >>> into the mail this week. >> >> Will do, coming shortly. > > Not to hijack the thread, but when I was doing the saa7134 work for > the 1150, I noticed something strange during testing. I just was > watching the my tty0 virtual console while whacking buttons on the > remote. It appears that there would be a backlog queued up in the > driver. > > For example, if I hit on the remote control: > > 1111.....2 > > (where .... is a pause for a couple of seconds) > > I would actually see to the console: > > 1111....12 > > (were .... is the pause in time) > > Note that there is a "1" after the pause, suggesting it was in some > sort of queue or backlog that wasn't flushed. > > Have you seen anything like this with other drivers? I actually have. If I'm thinking clearly, the cases I've seen were taken care of by converting the respective device drivers over to using ir_raw_event_store_with_filter (and setting a timeout value), but I could be mixing up the symptoms that led to those changes with something else. I do know I've seen similar behavior with other hardware though. :) > I'm asking > because if this is something you think might be specific to the > saa7134 (and you want to investigate), I can throw the 1150 board into > the same package. > > I guess I'm just raising the concern because the perceived behavior > could be stray button presses being sent to the application. For > example, if I say "13" and then a few seconds later type "25", I don't > want the application to receive "325". > > Anyway, let me know if you want me to throw the second board in the > outbound package. Sure, throw it in, I'll see what I can see. -- Jarod Wilson jarod@xxxxxxxxxxxx -- 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
