Hi
Please consider adding "[media] lirc_sir: make device registration
work" to stable:
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This probably needs to get acked by the subsystem maintainer.
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commit 4b71ca6bce8fab3d08c61bf330e781f957934ae1
Author: Jarod Wilson <jarod@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon Jun 4 13:05:24 2012 -0300
[media] lirc_sir: make device registration work
For one, the driver device pointer needs to be filled in, or the lirc core
will refuse to load the driver. And we really need to wire up all the
platform_device bits. This has been tested via the lirc sourceforge tree
and verified to work, been sitting there for months, finally getting
around to sending it. :\
CC: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jarod Wilson <jarod@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxx>
[backporting to <= v3.1, needed for 3.0-longterm]
The lirc subdirectory moved from drivers/staging/lirc/ to
drivers/staging/media/lirc/ in kernel v3.2, for older kernels this
can simply be backported with:
sed -i 's|drivers/staging/media/lirc/|drivers/staging/lirc/|g' media-lirc_sir-make-device-registration-work.patch
no other changes are required for v3.0-longterm, build-tested.
This commit fixes loading the lirc_sir module, which previously
wouldn't load/ be usable at all (since its introduction in v2.6.36).
serial8250: ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
smsc_superio_flat(): fir: 0x230, sir: 0x2f8, dma: 03, irq: 3, mode: 0x0e
smsc_ircc_present: can't get sir_base of 0x2f8
[…]
lirc_dev: IR Remote Control driver registered, major 251
lirc_sir: module is from the staging directory, the quality is unknown, you have been warned.
lirc_register_driver: dev pointer not filled in!
lirc_sir: init_chrdev() failed.
The afforementioned commit fixes this problem and makes lirc_sir
usable:
serial8250: ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
smsc_superio_flat(): fir: 0x230, sir: 0x2f8, dma: 03, irq: 3, mode: 0x0e
smsc_ircc_present: can't get sir_base of 0x2f8
[…]
lirc_dev: IR Remote Control driver registered, major 251
lirc_sir: module is from the staging directory, the quality is unknown, you have been warned.
platform lirc_dev.0: lirc_dev: driver lirc_sir registered at minor = 0
lirc_sir: I/O port 0x02f8, IRQ 3.
lirc_sir: Installed
Without this patch lirc_sir can't even get loaded, the alternative
would be to mark it as BROKEN for <<3.6.
Bug references:
- RedHat bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=557210 [2.6.31.9-174.fc12.i686.PAE]
- Ubuntu launchpad: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lirc/+bug/912251 [3.0.0-12-generic]
- Debian BTS: http://bugs.debian.org/680762 [3.2+]
Regards
Stefan Lippers-Hollmann
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