[mythtv-users] USB IR Receivers

[Kirk Bocek]

On 9/7/2015 9:20 AM, Alec Leamas wrote:
>
> The more I think about this I tend to think that that is a kernel bug 
> which should be reported. It just should not crash this way whatever 
> input it gets. Even if you patched the driver this way, a bad remote 
> declaring itself with some supported vendor:product id will give the 
> same crash if it behaves like your remote (?)
>
> You can also probably trigger the same crash using the unmodified 
> source by binding the driver to the device using the 'bind' interface 
> which works similar to the 'unbind' one. IIRC, this bypasses the 
> driver tables and binds unconditionally (?)
>
> Ergo: it might be a Good Thing to report this to the kernel folks.
>
>

Both you and Roger are pushing me that way. I think I'll install Fedora 
22 and get the latest and best of Fedora and see what that does. 
Checking Fedora Updates that looks like Kernel 4.1.6. Well see what that 
does.

I've never tried reporting a kernel bug. How and where does one do that?