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

Tom Dexter digitalaudiorock at gmail.com
Thu Aug 24 06:52:01 UTC 2017


On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 7:46 PM, Tom Dexter <digitalaudiorock at gmail.com> wrote:
> This one just has me at my wits end. I'm running on Gentoo and am
> trying to update my kernel from 4.9.34 to 4.12.5. I'm running
> lircd-0.9.4a and had the lirc_serial stuff compiled directly into the
> kernel (no modules) and have the serial SERIAL_8250 stuff disabled (as
> required). This all works 100% with lirc_serial in 4.9.34.
>
> So apparently since then, lirc_serial was moved out of the staging
> drivers and rename to serial_ir

I was sure I'd mentioned in my original email that this is in fact on
an x86 system, and not 64 bit. After what I've seen with this, it's
entirely possible I'm hitting into something specific to that
architecture.

Tom


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