[linux-dvb] Ticlkess Mantis remote control implementation

[Roland Scheidegger]

On 24.06.2008 21:50, Marko Ristola wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have still my own version of Manu's jusst.de/mantis driver that is 
> based on v4l-dvb-linuxtv main branch,
> mainly because I use so new Linux kernels.
> I have done the following improvement lately:
> 
> I implemented a remote control patch, that doesn't poll the remote 
> control all the time.
> It polls the remote control only if you press the button (a tickless 
> version, you know).
> It surprised me, that the actual implementation was really small, it 
> took very few lines of code.
> 
You're not the first to think that the constant polling is not
necessary, too bad these things always get lost because they aren't
integrated in the official driver...

http://www.linuxtv.org/pipermail/linux-dvb/2008-May/026102.html

Roland