With the release of udev 94, the rule parsing engine has become a bit more strict. The effect is that rules now use single equal signs (=) for assignment only, and double equal signs (==) for comparison. 10-lirc.rules still uses a sngle quote for a comparison. Existing rule looks like; KERNEL="lirc[0-9]*", NAME="lirc/%n" And needs to be changed to; KERNEL=="lirc[0-9]*", NAME="lirc/%n"
Fixed in ebuilds lirc-0.8.0-r1 and lirc-0.8.0-r3.