Dual Serial blasters?

[Jeff A. <jun...@ve...>]

I've got two identical satellite receivers (JVC DishPlayer 7200s) that I 
want to control via LIRC with MythTV.  These receivers cannot be set to 
different remote addresses, so they must be controlled from seperate IR 
blasters using the SAME IR signals.  I already built the basters and 
they both work when used individually.  (I'm currently successfully 
controlling one DP7200 and a Dish3900 with the same blaster on COM2) 
I'd like to be able to control a second DP7200 via the blaster on COM1.

I've googled and searched the lists, and I have found some pages that 
describe how to load multiple instances of LIRC using different drivers 
(ie: lirc_ivtv and lirc_serial) by specifying a minor device number in 
the modules.conf file, but I don't see anything that allows multiple 
*serial* blasters to be used.

So can I accomplish this without having to create a copy of lirc with 
everything renamed (like the myth_ledxmit project), or is that the only 
option that I have?

As a side note -- wouldn't it make sense to have a few serial drivers in 
lirc?  Perhaps even something like lirc_serial_com1 thru 
lirc_serial_com9 ???  That would make things much easier...  Then my 
modules.conf would just have a few lines like this:

alias char-major-61-0 lirc_serial_com1
alias char-major-61-1 lirc_serial_com2
install lirc_serial_com1 setserial /dev/ttyS0 uart none; /sbin/modprobe 
--ignore-install lirc_serial_com1
install lirc_serial_com2 setserial /dev/ttyS1 uart none; /sbin/modprobe 
--ignore-install lirc_serial_com2

Thanks in advance for any tips/help!

Jeff