Re: 2.6.36 (now 2.6.38) and lirc_i2c problems

[Chris D. <ch...@ch...>]

On 11/15/2010 09:40 PM, Jarod Wilson wrote:
> On Nov 15, 2010, at 8:51 AM, Chris Dos wrote:
> 
>> On 11/14/2010 08:46 PM, Jarod Wilson wrote:
>>> On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 1:36 AM, Chris Dos<ch...@ch...>  wrote:
>>>> I have a Hauppauge PVR-350 card. �I've set up a stock 2.6.36 and lirc-0.9.0-pre1 source (tried cvs as well).
>>>> When trying to load the lirc_i2c module, dmesg shows:
>>>>
>>>> Nov 13 23:17:25 leto kernel: lirc_i2c: disagrees about version of symbol lirc_register_driver
>>>> Nov 13 23:17:25 leto kernel: lirc_i2c: Unknown symbol lirc_register_driver (err -22)
>>>>
>>>> The card and LIRC worked fine with 2.6.34 and the CVS I pulled a back then.
>>>>
>>>> I'm at a loss on how to fix this now.
>>>
>>> I believe you've built lirc_i2c against lirc_dev in the lirc git tree,
>>> and are trying to load it with your kernel-provided lirc_dev, thus the
>>> symbol version mismatch.
>>>
>>
>> Would it be best then to disable the kernel-provided lirc_dev and using everything from the lirc source?  I 
>> though the v9 of lirc was going to use what was in the kernel and compile the other modules against the 
>> kernel.  I may be totally off my rocker though.
> 
> Hm. Building against 2.6.36 headers should have resulted in an lirc_i2c
> that worked with the kernel-provided lirc_dev. At least, that was the
> intention. Could certainly try replacing the kernel's lirc_dev as well,
> and that *should* work, but I do wonder what's amiss there. Another item
> for ye olde TODO liste... :\
> 

Just wanted to let you know that this bug still exists in the latest git and 2.6.38.  Removing the kernels
lirc_dev module
/lib/modules/2.6.38/kernel/drivers/media/rc/lirc_dev.ko
allows it to work.

	Chris