On Monday 13 October 2003 11:00, Holger Waechtler wrote: > Oliver Endriss wrote: > > I'm not sure whether a 'get protocol types' ioctl is really useful. > > For example, the full-featured DVB-S cards support RC5 and RCMM, but > > most optical receivers shipped with these cards cannot receive RCMM. > > There is no way to detect this in the driver. > > There are many IR protocols used in reality: RC5, RC6, RCMM, the NEC > protocol, the Sony protocol, the SHARP code, the Panasonic code, R-2000 > - maybe too much to probe them all. > > Take a look on http://www.vishay.com/docs/80071/80071.pdf to get a fast > overview, for many of the protocols you find parsers and uC codelets on > the web. If you have a card where a general-purpose uC like the MSP430 > decodes IR events (like e.g. the Nova-CI cards) you could well reprogram > it to parse your own protocol.
Ok, I see. We need a function to query all supported protocols and another one to select the protocol which shall be used. Oliver -- Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe linux-dvb" as subject.
