Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] rc: Adding support for sysfs wakeup scancodes

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On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 09:10:58PM +0200, Antti Seppälä wrote:
> On 22 January 2014 18:29, Sean Young <sean@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 05:46:28PM +0200, Antti Seppälä wrote:
> >> On 21 January 2014 14:28, Sean Young <sean@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> > On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 09:39:43PM +0200, Antti Seppälä wrote:
> >> >> This patch series introduces a simple sysfs file interface for reading
> >> >> and writing wakeup scancodes to rc drivers.
> >> >>
> >> >> This is an improved version of my previous patch for nuvoton-cir which
> >> >> did the same thing via module parameters. This is a more generic
> >> >> approach allowing other drivers to utilize the interface as well.
> >> >>
> >> >> I did not port winbond-cir to this method of wakeup scancode setting yet
> >> >> because I don't have the hardware to test it and I wanted first to get
> >> >> some comments about how the patch series looks. I did however write a
> >> >> simple support to read and write scancodes to rc-loopback module.
> >> >
> >> > Doesn't the nuvoton-cir driver need to know the IR protocol for wakeup?
> >> >
> >> > This is needed for winbond-cir; I guess this should be another sysfs
> >> > file, something like "wakeup_protocol". Even if the nuvoton can only
> >> > handle one IR protocol, maybe it should be exported (readonly) via
> >> > sysfs?
> >> >
> >> > I'm happy to help with a winbond-cir implementation; I have the hardware.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Sean
> >>
> >> Nuvoton-cir doesn't care about the IR protocol because the hardware
> >> compares raw IR pulse lengths and wakes the system if received pulse
> >> is within certain tolerance of the one pre-programmed to the HW. This
> >> approach is agnostic to the used IR protocol.
> >
> > Your patch talks about scancodes which is something entirely different.
> > This should be renamed to something better.
> >
> 
> I agree that for the nuvoton my choice of wording (scancode) was a
> poor one. Perhaps wakeup_code would suit both drivers?
> 
> > So with the nuvoton you program a set of pulses and spaces; with the
> > winbond you set the protocol and the scancode. I don't think there is
> > any shared code here. Maybe it's better to implement the wakeup
> > sysfs files in the drivers themselves rather than in rcdev, I guess that
> > depends on whether there are other devices that implement similar
> > functionality.
> >
> 
> The code to be shared is the logic of creating, parsing and formatting
> the sysfs file. In the end the drivers are only interested in getting
> a bunch of values to write to the hardware.
> 
> I was thinking about adding another file (wakeup_protocol sounds good)
> which would tell what semantics are used to interpret the contents of
> wakeup_code file (rc6, rc5, nec or raw). Would this be a decent
> solution?

Good idea. I like it.

Sean
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