[elrepo] lirc_serial recommendation?

[Phil Perry]

On 04/01/15 14:10, Phil Perry wrote:
> On 04/01/15 14:03, Akemi Yagi wrote:
>> On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 4:46 AM, Phil Perry <phil at elrepo.org> wrote:
>>> 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.
>>
>> The kmod option is the way to go whenever possible.
>>
>> The source code that is not enabled in the RHEL kernel is not being
>> maintained (updated), so it might have bugs and security issues.
>> Fedora is a moving target and its kernel is much newer.
>>
>> In addition, kmods can serve the whole EL community better. Switching
>> the kernel to the centosplus kernel may not be trivial if you are not
>> a CentOS user.
>>
>> Of course this does not mean I am unwilling to enable it in the plus
>> kernel. I will do that if a request is made. Then people can have a
>> choice. :)
>>
>> Akemi
> 
> Thanks Akemi.
> 
> I'll see if I can make a kmod package for this later today and get it
> out into the testing repository.
> 
> Phil
> 

Hi Wade,

I've built a kmod-lirc package from the drivers in staging of
kernel-3.10.63. It's currently syncing to our mirrors and should show up
shortly in the testing repository:

http://elrepo.org/linux/testing/el7/x86_64/RPMS/kmod-lirc-0.0-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64.rpm

The package contains the following lirc modules:

/lib/modules/3.10.0-123.el7.x86_64/extra/lirc/lirc_bt829.ko
/lib/modules/3.10.0-123.el7.x86_64/extra/lirc/lirc_igorplugusb.ko
/lib/modules/3.10.0-123.el7.x86_64/extra/lirc/lirc_imon.ko
/lib/modules/3.10.0-123.el7.x86_64/extra/lirc/lirc_parallel.ko
/lib/modules/3.10.0-123.el7.x86_64/extra/lirc/lirc_sasem.ko
/lib/modules/3.10.0-123.el7.x86_64/extra/lirc/lirc_serial.ko
/lib/modules/3.10.0-123.el7.x86_64/extra/lirc/lirc_sir.ko
/lib/modules/3.10.0-123.el7.x86_64/extra/lirc/lirc_zilog.ko

To test, please install with:

yum --enablerepo=elrepo-testing install kmod-lirc

Please could you let us know how the package works for you. You will
need to make sure the correct module for your hardware is loaded.

Thanks,

Phil