Re: Future versions of LIRC for use with in-kernel support

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Hi!

Maxim Levitsky "max...@gm..." wrote:
> I am going soon to publish my ene_ir driver to general public.
> As far as I understand it, to use lirc with in-kernel lirc bridge I need
> to use lirc.h from the kernel due to ioctl number changes.

Only sizes of parameters have changed AFAICT.
Should only matter for 64-bit kernels.

> Thats no problem because I can give the users a tarball that contains
> the updated lirc.h
>
> However, is it possible to compile lirc, its 'default' driver for
> in-kernel interface, but not compile its shipped kernel drivers?

Currently there is no way to only compile the default driver without any  
kernel module. You could use --with-driver=userspace, but this will also  
compile all other userspace drivers in addition to the default driver.

Christoph