[mythtv-users] lirc_serial move to serial_ir nightmare in kernel 4.12

[Tom Dexter]

On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 9:48 AM, Alec Leamas <leamas.alec at gmail.com> wrote:
>
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> On 23/08/17 14:37, Tom Dexter wrote:
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>> Alec: Regarding your request on the other thread to
>> increase the log level and start lircd, and try irw, I made sure my
>> lirc_options.conf had:
>>
>> loglevel       = 7
>> logfile = /root/lirc.log
>>
>> I use sysklogd and I'd have to figure out how to reoconfigure that to
>> show debug level output. With the above, I do get logging to that
>> file, but it doesn't appear any different than what I was getting:
>>
>> Aug 23 08:32:45.279510 mythfront lircd: Info: lircd:  Opening log, level:
>> Info
>>
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> Something is very broken here. It seems that for some reason your lircd does
> not pickup the setting from lirc_options.conf. I have no idea why.  The
> recommended value in this case is 'debug', not '7', though.
>
> You could test to add the --loglevel command line option in the startup
> script.
>
> Also, a link to the lircd.conf you are using would make sense.
>
> --a
>

Why does the example show "loglevel = 6"?:

https://sourceforge.net/p/lirc/git/ci/master/tree/lirc_options.conf

It took be forever to set up everything for that test. I can do it
over again if that was incorrect. Seems really odd though.

Tom