RE: Enable IR on hdpvr

Jason Gauthier
2011-01-10T14:25:20Z

>>
>> I did simply try changing:
>>
>> /* until i2c is working properly */
>> retval = 0; /* hdpvr_register_i2c_ir(dev); */
>> if (retval < 0)
>>
>> so that it would register with i2c.
>> Doing so returns a positive registration with I2C, but the lirc_zilog
>> driver doesn't see the chip when it loads. (The lirc_zilog is now in
>> the kernel, yay)

>There's a bit more to it than just the one line change. Here's the patch we're carrying in the Fedora kernels to enable it:

>http://wilsonet.com/jarod/lirc_misc/hdpvr-ir/hdpvr-ir-enable.patch

>Janne, I've heard many success stories w/the hdpvr IR lately, and almost no reports of lockups, so I'm thinking a firmware update may have helped out >here, and thus, maybe its time we just go ahead and push this patch along upstream? We still require someone to load lirc_zilog manually, so it seems like a >fairly low-risk thing to do.

Thanks. What source tree is this against? I see the patch is dated 09/2009. Manually comparing to my .37 source tree it does not appear to match up.
I don't mind bringing in a third source tree to compare against to see if I can make this work on .37, I just don't know which one!