[elrepo] lirc_serial recommendation?

[Phil Perry]

On 04/01/15 01:08, Wade Berrier wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> What is the recommended way to install or build an lirc_serial package?
> It's in the kernel staging area.
> 
> I see that fedora ships staging drivers, but not enterprise linux.
> 
> I'm specifically interested in el7.
> 
> Recommendations to proceed?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Wade
> 
> 

Hi Wade,

We have two options. We can either build the modules within a kernel or
build them as standalone kmod (kernel module) packages.

If you are a CentOS user we could ask Akemi if she would consider
enabling these modules within the CentOS-Plus kernel - that is an el7
kernel maintained by the CentOS project within which they have the
flexibility to enable drivers (or apply patches) that Red Hat have
chosen to ignore.

The other option is that elrepo builds the driver as a standalone kmod
package for you, backported from the latest 3.10.x kernel.

Looking at drivers/staging/media/lirc I see a number of different
drivers, described in the Kconfig file. Do you know which specific lirc
driver you require, or perhaps we could just build a kmod-lirc package
with all 8 lirc drivers.

Let me know your thoughts and we'll decide how best to proceed.

Regards,

Phil