Re: Little Problem with atiusb from 0.7.0

[Paul M. <pa...@pi...>]

> Hi,
> I have a slight problem with this driver, when I configure lirc with 
> "--with-driver=atiusb" only the driver and driver interface for this class 
of 
> devices are build, in this case when I call lircd without -H parameter or 
> with "-H default" it opens /dev/lirc to access the driver and everything 
> works.
> 
> If I configure lirc with "--with-driver=any" all drivers and driver 
interfaces 
> are build into lircd, when I now call it with "-H atilibusb" it tries to 
> access the driver somewhere under "/proc/bus/usb/.../..." and it gets an 
> -EBUSY back while doing "ioctl(9, USBDEVFS_CLAIMINTERFACE,..." this comes 
> from "int usb_driver_claim_interface(struct usb_driver *driver, struct 
> usb_interface *iface, void* priv)" in usb.c in the kernel (2.6.8.1).
> 
> Why this difference? I'm not so familliar with the usb code in the kernel to 
> find out more.

When you load modules lirc_dev and lirc_atiusb, a /dev/lirc device should be 
created (assuming you're using udev).  Access this device with lirc's default 
driver.

-Paul