tree 2dd9156f8a5bb27826a939034d1ffa7cac671211
parent d56dc61265d2527a63ab5b0f03199a43cd89ca36
author Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org> 1217941397 -0300
committer Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com> 1223811407 -0200

V4L/DVB (8625): saa7134: Add NEC prococol IR decoding capability

This patch adds the capability of decoding NEC protocol, received via GPIO18 line.
This GPIO port can trigger saa7134 IRQ.

A future improvement would be to make it a little more generic to work also
with GPIO16 line.

A pure IRQ code didn't work, since some delays were introduced on the tests we
did.

A possible approach would be to use polling at a rate of 2.5 ms or less. If a
new code were taken, a code similar to nec_task() could be used. However, this
would add an extra overhead to kernel, and will consume more power.

Due to that, we took an hybrid approach: an IRQ upper half to trigger when a
new key is received and a bottom half to convert pulse-distance into a keycode.

The bottom half is polling based, to improve performance. During the bottom
half proccess, GPIO18 IRQ line is disabled, preventing IRQ reentrancy and
improving performance a little bit.

Thanks to Sistema Fenix (http://www.sistemafenix.com.br/) for sponsoring this
development.

Signed-off-by: Gilberto <gilberto@sistemafenix.com.br>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>