Re: IR remote stopped working in kernels 4.5 and 4.6

[James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>]

On Mon, 2016-07-04 at 23:08 +0200, Heiner Kallweit wrote:
> Am 04.07.2016 um 22:36 schrieb James Bottomley:
> > This looks to be a problem with the rc subsystem.  The IR 
> > controller in question is part of a cx8800 atsc card. In the 4.4 
> > kernel, where it works, this is what ir-keytable says:
> > 
> > Found /sys/class/rc/rc0/ (/dev/input/event12) with:
> > 	Driver cx88xx, table rc-hauppauge
> > 	Supported protocols: other lirc rc-5 jvc sony nec sanyo mce-kbd
> > rc-6 sharp xmp 
> > 	Enabled protocols: lirc nec 
> > 	Name: cx88 IR (pcHDTV HD3000 HDTV)
> > 	bus: 1, vendor/product: 7063:3000, version: 0x0001
> > 	Repeat delay = 500 ms, repeat period = 125 ms
> > 
> > And in 4.6, where it doesn't work:
> > 
> > Found /sys/class/rc/rc0/ (/dev/input/event12) with:
> > 	Driver cx88xx, table rc-hauppauge
> > 	Supported protocols: lirc 
> > 	Enabled protocols: lirc 
> > 	Name: cx88 IR (pcHDTV HD3000 HDTV)
> > 	bus: 1, vendor/product: 7063:3000, version: 0x0001
> > 	Repeat delay = 500 ms, repeat period = 125 ms
> > 
> > The particular remote in question seems to require the nec protocol 
> > to work and the failure in 4.5 and 4.6 is having any supported
> > protocols at all.  I can get the remote to start working again by 
> > adding the nec protocol:
> > 
> > echo nec > /sys/class/rc/rc0/protocols
> > 
> > But it would be nice to have this happen by default rather than 
> > having to add yet another work around init script.
> > 
> Meanwhile decoder modules are loaded on demand only. This can be done
> automatically w/o the need for additional init scripts.
> 
> If /etc/rc_maps.cfg includes a keymap with type NEC then the nec 
> decoder module is loaded automatically.
> 
> My rc_maps.cfg looks like this (and causes the SONY decoder module to 
> be loaded automatically):
> 
> #driver table                    file
> *       *        sony-rm-sx800
> 
> And the keymap:
> 
> # table sony-rm-sx800, type SONY
> 0x110030        KEY_PREVIOUS
> 0x110031        KEY_NEXT
> 0x110033        KEY_BACK
> ..
> ..


Well, to work in the 4.4 kernel, the rc_maps.cfg names a table with the
nec controller, so it seems that whatever is supposed to trigger
autoloading isn't.

Is ir-keytable supposed to do this?  The current debian testing one is

Package: ir-keytable
Source: v4l-utils
Version: 1.10.1-1

Which seems to be the most current one.

James