[ATrpms-devel] lirc on 2.6.18

[Axel Thimm]

Hi,

On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 11:15:27AM -0500, William Otte wrote:
> On Oct 2, 2006, at 10:22 AM, Axel Thimm wrote:
> >On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 09:56:48AM -0500, William Otte wrote:
> >>I noticed this weekend while setting up my new MythTV box that there
> >>is not a lirc kmod for 2.6.18.  A couple hours later (and teaching
> >>myself a few of the ins and outs of building RPMs), I discovered this
> >>is likely due to the fact that 2.6.18 lacks udev, and as such lirc
> >>won't compile.
> >>
> >>The following patch (courtesy of the Gentoo folks)
> >
> >Thanks, this patch is originally from the lirc list and is part of
> >ATrpms' packages since rather recently. E.g. there is lirc support for
> >2.6.18 at ATrpms.
> 
> I certainly didn't find one in yum yesterday, and if I look here:
> 
> http://www.atrpms.net/dist/fc5/lirc/
> 
> there is no kmdl for 2.6.18, and the srpm available here:

FC5 has no 2.6.18 yet. It is still in testing, and was recently even
removed from there only to reappear today. The only distros at ATrpms
with 2.6.18 kernels as of now are FC6 and RHEL5.

> http://dl.atrpms.net/all/lirc-0.8.1-62_cvs20060930.at.src.rpm
> 
> lacks this patch.

How can you tell (beware, it's a trick question)? :)
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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