Recent threads on lirc_serial serial_ir

Hi. New to the list here. I'm running on Gentoo and was trying to move
from the 4.9.34 kernel to 4.12.5. This of course means the move from
lirc_serial to serial_ir. I seem to be running into the same issue
described here:

https://sourceforge.net/p/lirc/mailman/message/35926194/

That is, the /dev/lirc0 device seems to be working fine and mode2
seems to indicate that my driver configuration (default driver) is
correct, however I get nothing with irw.

I reverted the change that was supposed to be the issue, that is, this one:

https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9585613/

...and that doesn't seem to fix it. I also tried patching with a
change I've seen many places where the resolution was intended to
return milliseconds, where that LIRC_GET_REC_RESOLUTION returns:

val = dev->rx_resolution / 1000;

That didn't help either. Everything appears fine but I get nothing
from irw or in any applications (mythtv specifically). Any idea what
might be going on?

Thanks!
Tom

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