Re: lirc_serial bugfix

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Hi!

Andrei Tanas "an...@un..." 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.

I have modified part 1 slightly and have chosen a different approach for  
part 2. The code is in CVS already. I hope it will fix the problem.

Christoph