Re: lirc_gpio

[Laurence D. <ld...@tu...>]

Christoph Bartelmus wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> a patch that makes the lirc_gpio module work again on 2.6.24
> (probably will apply to older kernel versions as well) is available
> at:
> http://lirc.sourceforge.net/software/snapshots/lirc-bttv-linux-2.6.24.patch
> 
> I am able to load the module without problems, but can't test if it  
> really works because I don't have the required hardware.
> 

Sigh. That might work in the short term, but reverting to an obsolete
API has zero chance of being a long term solution.  Well, it might, but
it's an ugly solution ("Hi, if you have any of a class of IR receivers,
you must patch the kernel"), and even uglier from my POV after I spent
time on the input driver, the difference being: "you only need to patch
the kernel if you have a certain card, and hopefully in future you wont
need to", and at least theoretically has support from the kernel people.
Even if the API patch is only meant as a temporary fix, it might
discourage people testing the input layer, holding it up.

If lirc_gpio really can't be droped then that should be fixed for the
new API instead, I've looked at it but didn't see how.

Can you at least please include the winfast2000xp patch in the
snapshots dir? The archives seem to have munged it up.

Thanks,
Laurence