Re: RPi kernel upgrade breaks lirc

On 3/18/19 6:43 PM, Ken Kayser wrote:
> 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.

It may sound strange, but /dev/lirc and the kernel drivers (like 
lirc_rpi) are not "Lirc" anymore. They now belong to, and are maintained 
with, the kernel. So you are on the wrong mailing list. I suggest trying 
the RPi forum. Also, the lirc_rpi driver is deprecated since some time, 
possibly it has been formally removed?

Good luck!

Bengt