Re: lirc-0.8.3pre2

[Alexander D. <po...@le...>]

Hi Christoph,

 > Some time ago I have asked around if anyone still needs 2.4 kernel
 > support. At that time nobody objected to drop 2.4 support, so it's not
 > supported officialy anymore.

I would have complained, if I had read the list. Unfortunatly I 
subscribed not until last week. :-( Sorry for bothering you with a 
problem deriving from dropped support for an old kernel.

You are certainly right, kernel 2.4 is old and for the major 
distributions no topic anymore. The things with eisfair are a bit 
different and we just released an up to date 2.4 series kernel for 
eisfair-1. eisfair-2 will use kernel 2.6 and is on the way, but I assume 
that we still have to stay with eisfair-1 and kernel 2.4 for quite a 
while. I regret this, but speed of development is dependent on number of 
active developers and there are still too much issues preventing us from 
releasing eisfair-2.

Despite of this: how difficult would it be to revert changes making lirc 
imcomplete to kernel 2.4. series? For now I include only two drivers 
into the LIRC package for eisfair: serial and atiusb. There was no 
single wish to include more drivers for eisfair in the past so I think 
it would be sufficient for me to obtain support for at least the serial 
driver for kernel 2.4 series.

Is the change on the include paths I proposed before the only one 
necessary to make this driver run again? Would that be enough to make 
this driver correctly working again with 2.4.x kernel or are there 
problems to be expected resulting from other changes since you decided 
to drop 2.4.x support?

Assuming you don't want to support 2.4 anyway, when was the point you 
stopped support? Perhaps I could make a special patched version from 
this point of development to match my requirements.

Greets
Alex

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