Re: LIRC GPIO Unnecessary now?

[Wiktor <gr...@gm...>]

Hello.

> How would everyone feel about deprecating the lirc_gpio driver's 
> usage in kernel 2.6.22+ in favor of recommending the usage 
> described in the bug report?

It's a good question and it's also quite funny to me, as I've built an
IR receiver today, just to get rid of lirc_gpio, and it took me about
half an hour (damn, so much time wasted. I should've done it years 
ago ;)).

What I hope now is that lirc_serial won't be broken by the kernel
changes in the near future. To be precise there were "problems" with
2.6.22 as well (oopses resulting in system instability) but the
solution was to add:

install lirc_serial /usr/bin/setserial /dev/ttyS0 uart none
&& /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install lirc_serial

to modprobe.conf.

Cheers,
W.
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