RPi kernel upgrade breaks lirc

Hi,

 

I am new to lirc.  I installed it on a raspberry pi 3b+ running Raspbian
GNU/Linux 9.8 (stretch) with the current production kernel 4.19.  I
installed the current release of lirc, 0.9.4c.  I mad the required changes
to config.txt and lirc_options.conf.  After rebooting, the device /dev/lirc0
was missing and of course, lirc wouldn't run.  After much research and
experimentation, I discovered that if I downgraded my kernel to 4.14.98, the
/dev/lirc0 device magically reappeared and lirc runs fine.  I repeated this
several times to be sure.  For now, I will not perform and kernel upgrades.
I am new to Linux as well and don't know if the problem needs to be
corrected in the kernel or in lirc.

 

If additional information is needed, I will be happy t supply it.

 

Best regards,

 

Ken Kayser

Tobaccoville, NC

 

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