[ATrpms-users] lirc borked after kernel upgrade

[Seán O Sullivan]

Deon Bredenhann wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> I just upgraded from 2.6.9-34.0.2.EL to 2.6.9-42.0.3.EL
> And I have the following installed
> lirc-kmdl-2.6.9-34.0.2.EL-0.8.0-55.el4.at
> lirc-kmdl-2.6.9-42.0.3.EL-0.8.1-63_cvs20060930.el4.at
> lirc-0.8.1-63_cvs20060930.el4.at
> lirc-devices-0.8-3.el4.at
> lirc-lib-0.8.1-63_cvs20060930.el4.at
> And the ivtv kmdls.
> System is a Centos4 with all updates and a Hauppauge PVR 350
> 
> I browsed through the archives a bit and saw a few posts about broken
> lirc after upgrade. I did a few tests and saw that if I boot with the
> previous kernel and keep all the lircd packages the same, lirc seems to
> work fine. So it looks like the problem is in the latest kmdl. 
> 
> If I do my modprobe for lirc in the latest kernel, I get the following
> in messages. Keeping everything the same, even modprobe.conf and booting
> with previous kernel works fine.
> 
> kernel: lirc_dev: Unknown symbol class_device_destroy
> kernel: lirc_dev: Unknown symbol class_device_destroy
> kernel: lirc_i2c: Unknown symbol lirc_unregister_plugin
> kernel: lirc_i2c: Unknown symbol lirc_register_plugin
> 
> Anyone out there found a solution for this yet. Should I just run an
> older kernel?

I'm seeing same issue, although only setup lirc when box had 
2.6.9-42.0.3 kernel, so can't verify it works on older (what is the 
latest kernel lirc works on?).

Is this issue going to be fixed in later kernel updates, or is it a case 
of waiting till rhel5 (when hopefully it will be fixed?).


Regards,


Seán