[mythtv-users] LIRC Serial using Kernel Staging Drivers

[Rob Davis]

I'm sorry, the cut and paste got messed up, I have corrected it below.


On 2012-08-05 21:25, Rob Davis wrote:
> No matter what I try and do I can't get this to work again.
>
> I am using Gentoo, which upgraded lirc on me, and I'm not 100% sure
> what it did.
>
> I have a serial port receiver and transmitter which has been working
> fine for a few years.  Using kernel 3.4.3 I got this working using 
> the
> kernel staging drivers, however, using kernel 3.5.0 I can't get it
> working at all.  I downloaded the source for lirc 0.9.0 to try and 
> get
> lircd working again.  However, I am not sure how to get this working
> using the staging drivers.  It won't compile using serial giving the
> following compile error:
>
> /usr/src/lirc/lirc-0.9.0/drivers/lirc_serial/lirc_serial.c:69:24:
> fatal error: asm/system.h: No such file or directory
>
> Using driver none (as the drivers were in the kernel) says:
> /usr/local/sbin/lircd -n -d /dev/lirc0
> lircd: there's no hardware I can use and no peers are specified
>
> Using userspace itcuser gives me  this when I run lircd
>
> /usr/local/sbin/lircd -n -d /dev/lirc0
> lircd: lircd(i2cuser) ready, using /var/run/lirc/lircd
> lircd: accepted new client on /var/run/lirc/lircd
> lircd: Cannot find i2c adapter
> lircd: i2c device cannot be opened
> lircd: WARNING: Failed to initialize hardware
> lircd: select() failed
> lircd: Bad file descriptor
> lircd: removed client
>
>
> So, how is the correct way to get the lirc_serial driver working 
> these days?
>
> Wife was forced to watch Netflix instead of the Olympics tonight and
> not happy with me.