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

[Tom Dexter]

On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 9:53 PM, Michael T. Dean
<mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
> On 08/23/2017 05:19 PM, Tom Dexter wrote:
>>
>> If I can't get the serial_ir to work in the current kernel I'll look
>> into other options.
>
>
> Haven't followed this thread fully, so excuse me if this has been mentioned,
> and I'm definitely not a LIRC expert, but could it be something like needing
> to recompile LIRC with the new kernel and modules in place so configure
> knows which you're using?
>
> Mike
>

Actually newer versions of LIRC have no actual kernel code at all and
never need recompiling related to the kernel. All the drivers etc are
in the kernel itself, and LIRC is pretty much purely user space at
this point.

Thanks!
Tom