After my last update modprobe lirc_serial fails every time. Lirc is unusable. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge lirc 2. enter "options lirc_serial irq=4 io=0x3f8" to /etc/modules.d/lirc 3. modprobe lirc_serial Actual Results: dmesg output: kobject_add failed for lirc_serial.0 with -EEXIST, don't try to register things with the same name in the same directory. [<c0230d87>] kobject_shadow_add+0x141/0x173 [<c0230eeb>] kobject_set_name+0x2b/0x92 [<c029b9f9>] device_add+0xa6/0x519 [<c029ed5c>] platform_device_add+0xe8/0x116 [<e550602a>] init_module+0x2a/0x27d [lirc_serial] [<c0142db6>] __vunmap+0xbd/0xd1 [<c0130be3>] sys_init_module+0x11f8/0x132e [<e4d6a5fe>] lirc_register_plugin+0x0/0x41f [lirc_dev] [<c014aeaa>] do_sync_read+0x0/0x109 [<c0103a76>] sysenter_past_esp+0x5f/0x85 [<c0350000>] write_bytes_to_xdr_buf+0x54/0xa2 ======================= I used lirc 3 years without problems. My last working kernel was 2.6.20 r8. At this time every kernel produce the same error message, I tried with 2.6.22 r9, 2.6.21 r4 and 2.6.20 r8.
Does this still fails with lirc-0.8.3. Is /usr/src/linux linked to the currently running kernel? Your error sounded like already loaded other lirc module or is very strange. Please also attach emerge --info output.
