[Pkg-lirc-maint] Bug#638163: Bug#638163: lircd device autodetection is gone in squeeze init script

[Stefan Lippers-Hollmann]

tags 638163 + moreinfo
thanks

Hi

On Wednesday 31 August 2011, Hermann Lauer wrote:
> Package: lirc
> Version: 0.8.3-5
> Severity: normal
> Tags: patch
[...]
> Package: lirc
> Version: 0.8.3-5
> Severity: normal
> Tags: patch
> 
> auto device detection is not working any more in squeeze, code looks bad.

Please show me your /etc/lirc/hardware.conf, it should look like this:
$ grep -v -e ^\# -e ^$ /etc/lirc/hardware.conf
LIRCD_ARGS=""
LOAD_MODULES=true
DRIVER=""
DEVICE="/dev/lirc0"
MODULES="lirc_sir"
LIRCD_CONF=""
LIRCMD_CONF="

I assume you use something like /dev/ttyS1 instead, which would be 
wrong.

> The appended patch (to an older version, probably lenny) restores
> that functionality.
[...]

The initscript itself is the next topic on the todo list for lirc, as
especially the new in-kernel RC_CORE subsystem needs further changes.
However these will have to go, and get tested in-, unstable first, 
right now I'm not sure how much of that can be backported to squeeze
though.
 
Regards
	Stefan Lippers-Hollmann