Bug 43174 – lirc_serial device not working in gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.3-r1

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Markus Rothe (RETIRED) 2004-02-27 23:56:04 UTC]

I just try to make the lirc_serial device working. But all I got, when I compile the kernel is following:

drivers/char/lirc/lirc_serial.c:92:2: warning: #warning "Note: using rdtsc instruction"
drivers/char/lirc/lirc_serial.c: In function `set_use_inc':
drivers/char/lirc/lirc_serial.c:820: warning: implicit declaration of function `module_refcount'

and the module doesn't load.

Maybe wrong version of the lirc patch is being used. Here you can get the actual patch for the 2.6.3 kernel: http://flameeyes.web.ctonet.it/lirc/lirc-2.6.3-20040224.bz2
(It was released after r1 came out, so I think it isn't used.)

Would you please include the patch for the next release.

Markus

[Comment 1 Markus Rothe (RETIRED) 2004-02-27 23:58:44 UTC]

Created attachment 26503 [details]
The patch

[Comment 2 Markus Rothe (RETIRED) 2004-02-28 06:52:00 UTC]

I just tested the patch with the development-sources (don't know what about patching a patched kernel...). well... didn't knew much about patching before today :-) but it finally works!

[Comment 3 Markus Rothe (RETIRED) 2004-03-04 03:48:06 UTC]

should be fixed soon!

[Comment 4 Markus Rothe (RETIRED) 2004-03-04 03:50:44 UTC]

sry for "closing" the bug...

[Comment 5 Markus Rothe (RETIRED) 2004-03-21 11:58:56 UTC]

is it so hard to do this? so fix it, please! :-(

[Comment 6 Brian Jackson (RETIRED) 2004-03-22 17:49:26 UTC]

Is this stopping your computer from booting? Does it destroy months worth of data reliably? No? Then it's hardly a blocker. It'll be fixed in due time. We are very short handed at the moment. Give us a break.

[Comment 7 Markus Rothe (RETIRED) 2004-03-23 09:58:19 UTC]

even in gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.4-r1 not fixed... it applies a patch witch is for 2.6.2... :-(

[Comment 8 Markus Rothe (RETIRED) 2004-03-24 10:36:31 UTC]

Created attachment 27936 [details, diff]
Patch for 2.6.4

This is the new patch which can be found here:
http://flameeyes.web.ctonet.it/lirc/lirc-2.6.4-20040318.bz2

[Comment 9 Markus Rothe (RETIRED) 2004-06-19 01:39:30 UTC]

time solved this problem... 2.6.7 is out without support for this, but I'll open a new bug for this.

Markus