[RFC 1/6] cec: add new driver for cec support.

[Kamil Debski]

Hi Sean,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sean Young [mailto:sean at mess.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2014 2:33 PM
> To: Kamil Debski
> Cc: dri-devel at lists.freedesktop.org; linux-media at vger.kernel.org;
> m.szyprowski at samsung.com; mchehab at osg.samsung.com; hverkuil at xs4all.nl;
> kyungmin.park at samsung.com; Hans Verkuil
> Subject: Re: [RFC 1/6] cec: add new driver for cec support.
> 
> On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 03:32:17PM +0100, Kamil Debski wrote:
> > +There are still a few todo's, the main one being the remote control
> > +support feature of CEC. I need to research if that should be
> > +implemented via the standard kernel remote control support.
> 
> I guess a new rc driver type RC_DRIVER_CEC should be introduced
> (existing types are RC_DRIVER_IR_RAW and RC_DRIVER_SCANCODE).
> rc_register_device() should not register the sysfs attributes specific
> for IR, but register sysfs attributes for cec like a link to the device.
> 
> In addition there should be a new rc_type protocol RC_TYPE_CEC; now
> rc_keydown_notimeout() can be called for each key press.
> 
> I guess a new keymap should exist too.
> 

Thank you for your suggestions. They are surely helpful and I agree with
them.

Best wishes,
-- 
Kamil Debski
Samsung R&D Institute Poland