[elrepo] lirc_serial recommendation?

[Wade Berrier]

On Jan 04 16:50, Phil Perry wrote:
> 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.

Wow, thank you for the work on this.  It looks great and I plan on
trying it out in the next few days.  I'll let you know how it goes.

Wade