Re: Using lirc compiled into kernel

[Marcel <sh...@ma...>]

> 
> Message: 4
> Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 00:27:01 +1100
> From: Cameron McCormack <ca...@mc...>
> To: lir...@li...
> Subject: Using lirc compiled into kernel
> 
> Hi list.
> 
> [Please CC me as I'm not subscribed to the list.  Thanks!]
> 
> I'm trying to get lirc working with my 2.6.0-test9 kernel.  I found a
> patch on the mailing list that let me get lirc compiling with this
> kernel properly.  I'm finding it isn't working, though.  The lirc stuff
> is being compiled in, not as a module.
> 
> Since I have a WinFast 2000 XP, I'm using the lirc_gpio driver.  The
> driver calls on the services of the bttv driver, but at the time the
> lirc driver is initialised, bttv hasn't been.  I can see this by looking
> at the output of dmesg, in which the lirc stuff happens before the bttv
> stuff.  As a result, the lirc_gpio code doesn't detect any card.
> 
> Is there a way I can get the bttv stuff to happen before the lirc stuff
> without compiling stuff into modules?

I've put 'bttv' in my '/etc/modules' file to load it manually.