On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 04:44:01PM +0900, Andi Shyti wrote: > Hi Sean, > > it's been a while :) > > I was going through your review fixing what needs to be fixed, > but... > > > > @@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ static ssize_t ir_lirc_transmit_ir(struct file *file, > > > const char __user *buf, > > > } > > > > > > ret = dev->tx_ir(dev, txbuf, count); > > > - if (ret < 0) > > > + if (ret < 0 || dev->driver_type == RC_DRIVER_IR_RAW_TX) > > > > Just because a driver only does transmit doesn't mean its transmit ABI > > should change. > > > > Now this bit of code is pretty horrible. It ensures that the call to write() > > takes at least as long as the length of the transmit IR by sleeping. That's > > not much of a guarantee that the IR has been sent. > > > > Note that in the case of ir-spi, since your spi transfer is sync no sleep > > should be introduced here. > > > > The gap calculation in lirc checks that if the call to write() took _longer_ > > than expected wait before sending the next IR code (when either multiple > > IR codes or repeats are specified). Introducing the sleep in the kernel > > here does not help at all, lirc already ensures that it waits as long as > > the IR is long (see schedule_repeat_timer in lirc). > > > > This change was introduced in 3.10, commit f8e00d5. > > ... I'm not sure what can be done here. I get your point and I > understand that this indeed is a kind of fake sync point and by > doing this I
My original plan was to send a patch which just removes the silly wait, but on further investigating debian stable and testing still carry a lirc version that depend on it, so that's not going to fly. > How about creating two different functions: > > - ir_lirc_transmit_ir where we actually do what the function > already does > - ir_lirc_transmit_no_sync where the function we don't wait > because the the sync is done on a different level (for example > in the SPI case). > > SPI does approximately the same thing. Since we have to be able to switch between waiting and not waiting, we need some sort of ABI for this. I think this warrants a new ioctl; I'm not sure how else it can be done. I'll be sending out a patch shortly. Sean -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
