Re: GPIO Repeat problem ( patch )

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Hi!

Krzysztof Cichocki "rnd...@gm..." wrote:
> I'm using "AVerMedia TVPhone 98 [card=41,autodetected]" with bttv kernel
> driver.
>
> With revision=1.62 of drivers/lirc_dev/lirc_dev.c
> a statement: "buffer overflow must be checked by client add_to_buf
> function" was made.
>
> So far lirc_gpio ( lirc_gpio.c ) does not check the buffer, making
> lirc_dev loop until key is released.
> ( In other words repeat does not work with lirc_gpio )
>
> With that little patch below, my problem is gone.

With this patch lirc_dev will still loop unnecessarily until the buffer is  
full. Setting the soft_gap module parameter to a reasonable default value  
makes more sense to me.

Christoph