[mythtv-users] Necessity of boot process changes

[Lee McLain]

 Hi all,
    I am just starting into my first attempt at a MythTV box.
 Everything is, so far, going pretty smoothly.  I am using Jarods HOWTO
 and at this point(just after getting lircd to work) I have one
 question.
    What I read this:
 
 UPDATE: I think I finally have a completely viable, universal fix to
 get both ivtv and lirc modules (no matter which lirc module you're
 using, as long as its in modprobe.conf) loading very early in the boot
 process. I simply made a few changes to rc.sysinit, which you can add
 to your system via a patch I've generated. You'll still need to remove
 the first line from /etc/udev/rules.d/lirc.rules, leaving only
 'KERNEL="lirc0",   SYMLINK="lirc"' in there, then download and apply
 this diff:
 # tail -1 /etc/udev/rules.d/lirc.rules > /etc/udev/rules.d/lirc.rules
 # wget https://svn.wilsonet.com/svn/mythtvology/trunk/rc.sysinit-mm.diff
 # patch /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit < rc.sysinit-mm.diff
 
 With these changes, everything finally initializes correctly at boot
 time on my boxes. I never really looked into this one much earlier,
 since my boxes never reboot. ;-)
 
 I am not sure if this is NECESSARY or just something that is
 recommended.  Is there anyone out there that has used this and had
 success with it?  Does it work all the time or is it a YMMV sort of
 thing?
 
 Thanks,
 Lee