Hi,
I would like to get lirc into the main distribution, as well as some of the kernel modules for it. For me personally there's only one blocker; I have a bunch of soldered receivers that work with the COM port.
However, for that to work, the serial driver needs to be compiled as a module. AFAIK, in Red Hat kernels it's always compiled in.
The only thing I could think of that would require it to be compiled in, is kernel debugging over a serial link.
Can someone tell me what would be the objections of making the serial driver module in the mainline Red Hat kernel, so the lirc driver can be easily provided for stock kernels ?
Thanks Thomas
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On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 12:57:12AM +0200, Thomas Vander Stichele wrote:
However, for that to work, the serial driver needs to be compiled as a module. AFAIK, in Red Hat kernels it's always compiled in.
The only thing I could think of that would require it to be compiled in, is kernel debugging over a serial link.
Serial console from initial boot is in fact critical to our ability to debug user problems. You have answered your own question.
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On Mon, 2003-08-18 at 17:12, Michael K. Johnson wrote:
On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 12:57:12AM +0200, Thomas Vander Stichele wrote:
However, for that to work, the serial driver needs to be compiled as a module. AFAIK, in Red Hat kernels it's always compiled in.
The only thing I could think of that would require it to be compiled in, is kernel debugging over a serial link.
Serial console from initial boot is in fact critical to our ability to debug user problems. You have answered your own question.
major suckage then :) So, failing that, is there (I'm speaking theoretically here, I'm not a kernel hacker) some way that the kernel could grab serial at boot time, but release it when the boot has finished and the rest of the system is started ? I somehow somewhere feel that this might be possible :) If it is, would something like that be considered if someone did the code ?
Thomas
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On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 05:46:28PM +0200, Thomas Vander Stichele wrote:
major suckage then :) So, failing that, is there (I'm speaking theoretically here, I'm not a kernel hacker) some way that the kernel could grab serial at boot time, but release it when the boot has finished and the rest of the system is started ? I somehow somewhere feel that this might be possible :) If it is, would something like that be considered if someone did the code ?
We could consider it if it were accepted upstream and didn't cause other trouble I haven't thought of here... :-)
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