Re: LIRC 0.9.2 and wpc8769l

[Alec L. <lea...@gm...>]

On 15/01/15 15:18, Lukas Fleischer wrote:
> Hi Alec,
>
> I just wanted to update the lirc drivers and utilities on Arch Linux and
> noticed that the wpc8769l driver is no longer included in the source
> tarball. Is there any reason for excluding it? Is it no longer
> supported? What are wpc8769l users supposed to use from now on (doesn't
> look like that module made it into the kernel yet)?
>
> Regards,
> Lukas
>

Hi!

wpc87691 is a kernel driver, and as such no longer part of lirc. This 
happened actually long time ago, around 0.9.0.

As of now, lirc only contains user-space drivers (which are called 
drivers only for historical reasons, it's rather a plugin structure).

However, the wpc8769l is still part of the git repository as an example 
how to build kernel drivers. If arch allows you to package kernel 
modules I presume you could take that and build a module from it. The 
problem with this is that you have to consider the upstream dead, we 
don't maintain this code beyond that it actually builds. The proper way 
would be to create a kernel patch and upstream it.

BTW, I guess we should consider to add the driver examples to the 
distribution docs...


Cheers!

--alec