[mythtv-users] lirc woes with serial_ir kernel module

[Alec Leamas]

On 02/06/17 18:37, Hika van den Hoven wrote:
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> Why not instead of failing, taking the first or last occurrence and
> adding a message to the log "Ignoring second occurrence of ....". It's
> more friendly by not failing and still clear.

Partly because this is using the standard python ConfigParser which 
doesn't easily lend itself to such things.

And partly because trying to understand the user's intent in cases like 
this too easily leads to madness. There are reasons compilers fails even 
for simple errors like a missing semicolon rather then trying to guess 
what should be there.

The patch I just checked in  generates the correct error message:
"while reading from 'foo.conf' [line 34]: option 'code1' in section 
'modinit' already exists". IMHO, this is the proper fix. The message is 
generated by ConfigParser, so it's not only for this case.


Cheers!

--alec