Re: devfs and lirc - how?

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Hi!

Jan Torben Heuer "Ja...@gm..." wrote:

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>> I tried to use lirc on a system with devfs and run into this troubles:
>>
>> the device seems to register as /dev/lirc/0
>> the old name would have been /dev/lirc (if i'm not mistaken)
> ...

> Can you tell me, HOW lirdc and devfs work? What I have to do to set
> them up? Currently, I create the node automatically before running
> lircd. But as far as I understand devfs it should create the node
> automatically.

> I'm using the lirc_serial driver

The point is that lirc_serial does not have support for devfs at all...
I think only lirc_dev has (limited) devfs support.

Christoph