[mythtv-users] Lirc issues with 2.6.32 kernel

Jack Perveiler perveilerj at gmail.com
Mon Feb 15 19:22:52 UTC 2010


On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 12:30 PM, Jarod Wilson <jarod at wilsonet.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 5:42 PM, Jarod Wilson <jarod at wilsonet.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 11:29 PM, Rajesh Balan <rajesh at cs.cmu.edu>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> the mceusb driver works perfectly on 2.6.32. the lirc_serial is the one
> that
> >> has issues.
> >>
> >> the version in the lirc cvs source compiles and loads, but from kernel
> >> version 2.6.29 or so onwards, it has issues triggering my IR blaster --
> the
> >> triggering is very intermittent. I reported this to the lirc maintainer
> >> (Jarod) and he suggested using his git version of the lirc_serial driver
> >> instead. that version works flawlessly with 2.6.30. but it triggers a
> kernel
> >> OOPs with the 2.6.32 kernel.
> >
> > The oops should be fixed now. The remaining lirc_serial issue is a
> > type mismatch between userspace and kernelspace. I'll try to get it
> > fixed this weekend.
>
> This build *should* fix the ioctl type mismatch problem:
>
> http://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/packages/lirc/0.8.6/3.fc13/
>
> ...which isn't actually lirc_serial-specific, it would hit almost any
> driver on a 32-bit install. 64-bit installs were immune, which is why
> I didn't see any issues in my own testing. Oops.
>
>
Jarod,

do you have a svn/git/similar tree this was sourced from?  I'd like to give
this a try but I'm ubuntu-based.  I guess I could use alien on the source
.rpm but pulling straight from the source repository seems like the smarter
way to go.

Thanks,

--Jack
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