Re: udev 024 and LIRC support

Re: udev 024 and LIRC support

[Todd Musall]

Greg,

Good question.  I've been waiting a long time for the merge.  I'm using
the patch from:

http://flameeyes.web.ctonet.it/lirc/

lirc-2.6.4-20040318.bz2

I had to modify Kconfig slightly before it would apply, but it does
work.

Here's my Kconfig patch:

--- lirc-2.6.4-20040318	2004-04-06 18:35:46.000000000 -0400
+++ lirc-2.6.4-20040318.new	2004-04-06 18:43:15.000000000 -0400
@@ -56,18 +56,17 @@ diff -Npaur linux-2.6.4/Documentation/li
 +
 +1. enabling/using shared IRQ
 +2. init/drop IRQ-usage in lirc_open/lirc_close
-diff -Npaur linux-2.6.4/drivers/char/Kconfig
linux-2.6.4-lirc/drivers/char/Kconfig
---- linux-2.6.4/drivers/char/Kconfig	2004-03-15 14:44:47.533164736
+0100
-+++ linux-2.6.4-lirc/drivers/char/Kconfig	2004-03-15 15:03:14.207924600
+0100
-@@ -600,6 +600,8 @@ config PC9800_OLDLP_CONSOLE
- 	depends on PC9800_OLDLP
+--- linux-2.6.5/drivers/Kconfig	2004-04-03 22:38:17.000000000 -0500
++++ linux-2.6.5/drivers/Kconfig.new	2004-04-06 18:35:02.000000000 -0400
+@@ -42,6 +42,8 @@ source "drivers/char/Kconfig"
  
+ source "drivers/i2c/Kconfig"
  
 +source "drivers/char/lirc/Kconfig"
 +
- menu "Mice"
+ source "drivers/misc/Kconfig"
  
- config BUSMOUSE
+ source "drivers/media/Kconfig"
 diff -Npaur linux-2.6.4/drivers/char/Kconfig.orig
linux-2.6.4-lirc/drivers/char/Kconfig.orig
 --- linux-2.6.4/drivers/char/Kconfig.orig	1970-01-01 01:00:00.000000000
+0100
 +++ linux-2.6.4-lirc/drivers/char/Kconfig.orig	2004-03-15
14:44:47.533164736 +0100

-Todd

On Wed, 2004-04-14 at 15:13, Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 11:26:15PM -0400, Todd Musall wrote:
> > Greg,
> > 
> > Instead I used this rule to create /dev/vc/[0-9] symlinks:
> > 
> > KERNEL="tty[0-9]", NAME="%k", SYMLINK="vc/%m"
> > 
> > Works like a charm.
> > 
> > I've almost got udev completely working.  My last issue is with LIRC. 
> > The device node /dev/lirc0 isn't being created.  I'm using a patched
> > LIRC version for 2.6 kernels and on devfs everything works fine.  I
> > haven't had time to debug it further but wondered if anyone else has got
> > LIRC working with udev?
> 
> Odds are lirc code needs to be patched to work with sysfs.  Does anyone
> know why the lirc code is not in the mainline kernel?  I can't seem to
> be able to connect to the site that holds their 2.6 kernel patch...
> 
> greg k-h
-- 
Todd Musall <tmusall@comcast.net>



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