Re: lirc_serial bugfix

[David F. <da...@fr...>]

Do you think the "going deaf" part could have been causing the several 
minutes of blackout that a few people (me) have been seeing?

-Dave

Andrei Tanas wrote:
> The attached patch fixes two issues in lirc_serial
> 1. potential active level autodetection error (if there happens to be an IR signal present at the moment when the driver is loading). The new code takes 9 samples with 0.1s intervals and selects active high/low based on the maximum number of "votes".
> 2. if 2 consecutive "pulse" interrupts occur with more than 15 seconds interval, the driver would decide that "this MUST be a space" and flip the "sense" bit (even if it wasn't in autodetection mode!), becoming "deaf". Under normal conditions this (almost) never happened, with suspend/resume working the problem became very obvious. The patch just deletes this piece of code.
>
> Regards,
> Andrei.
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