Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 9 Apr 2010 17:55:28 -0400 | Subject | Re: [RFC] What are the goals for the architecture of an in-kernel IR system? | From | Devin Heitmueller <> |
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On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 9:01 AM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com> wrote: > [1] Basically, a keycode (like KEY_POWER) could be used to wake up the machine. So, by > associating some scancode to KEY_POWER via ir-core, the driver can program the hardware > to wake up the machine with the corresponding scancode. I can't see a need for a change at > ir-core to implement such behavior. Of course, some attributes at sysfs can be added > to enable or disable this feature, and to control the associated logic, but we first > need to implement the wakeup feature at the hardware driver, and then adding some logic > at ir-core to add the non-hardware specific code there.
Really? Have you actually seen any hardware where a particular scan code can be used to wake up the hardware? The only hardware I have seen has the ability to unsuspend on arrival of IR traffic, but you didn't have the granularity to dictate that it only wake up on particular scancodes.
Devin
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