[mythtv-users] lirc modules are missing on fedora 11

[Jarod Wilson]

On Aug 18, 2009, at 11:51 AM, mythtv at blandford.net wrote:

> I recently updated to the newest fedora 11 kernel to resolve the  
> kernel security issue.
>
> Afterwards, I noticed my remote is no longer working.  What I  
> discovered is all of the lirc modules are missing in the kernel  
> update.
>
> Jarod, do you know why this has happened?

Yes. Because I suck. :)

Did an lirc driver patch refresh, and two rather critical lines got  
left out of the updated patch, which resulted in the drivers not  
getting built. Unfortunately, I didn't have a chance to test the  
kernel and discover it was busted until after the security fix kernels  
had already been pushed.

Its already been fixed in a later kernel build, which you can get here:

http://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/packages/kernel/2.6.29.6/217.2.9.fc11/

That's going to cause some minor pain for those who rely on binary  
video drivers in pre-packaged format, unless using auto-rebuilding  
ones... Hopefully, this or something newer gets pushed as yet another  
update kernel soonish. That, or I suppose I could just throw together  
appropriate pre-compiled driver tarballs people could unpack into  
their kernel module trees if they want to keep using the current lirc- 
less kernel. :\

-- 
Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com