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

[Tom Dexter]

On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 3:47 PM, Hika van den Hoven <hikavdh at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hoi Tom,
>
>
> Have you tried using the lirc kernel modules?
> My machine having a serial receiver uses the lirc_serial and lirc_dev
> modules from lirc. It still runs a 3.18 kernel, I do not know if those
> modules compile against a 4 kernel.
> You cannot mix one from the kernel and the other from lirc, so disable
> the lirc_dev module in your kernel
> Just emerge lirc with serial as LIRC_DEVICES
> Add:
> LIRC_DEVICES="serial"
> to your make.conf
>
> You have to emerge lirc again on any kernel updates.
>
>
> Tot mails,
>   Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com
>
> "Zonder hoop kun je niet leven
> Zonder leven is er geen hoop
> Het eeuwige dilemma
> Zeker als je hoop moet vernietigen om te kunnen overleven!"
>
> De lerende Mens
>

That's never going to happen. I switched to the in-kernel modules a
very long time ago as by then the lirc modules had long since become
impossible to shoe-horn into the kernel. Actually the lirc_serial has
was flawless for me for ever since, until this recent restructure.

If I can't get the serial_ir to work in the current kernel I'll look
into other options.

Tom