lirc 0.8.6 and linux kernel >= 2.6.33 (will affect Ubuntu 10.10)

After googling, I found the patch that was applied to mainline 2.6.33. Unfortunately, the mainline kernels currently built do not include lirc. As such, here's the patch applied to lirc 0.8.6. The changes might be needed to be conditionalized on kernel >= 2.6.33. They compile and will make it work according to a cursory glance at it.

Howdy, and thank you for helping to improve Lirc by opening this ticket. The above patch appears to only support >= 2.6.33 kernels. A patch (coded somewhat differently, and includes support for older and newer kernels) appears to already be in the upstream cvs tree:

http://lirc.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/lirc/lirc/drivers/lirc_dev/lirc_dev.h?r1=1.37&r2=1.39

This issue should not affect Lucid/10.04 since it is shipping with the 2.6.32 kernel, but I'm leaving the ticket open in case we end up needing to patch 0.8.6 for Ubuntu 10.10. Hopefully a new upstream release is cut before then and just sync'ing to that would automaticly resolve this ticket.

I build a package with the missing patches for 2.6.33

https://launchpad.net/~thomas-creutz/+archive/ppa/+packages

@Thomas
Sorry, your package spits out a similar error when run.

/var/lib/dkms/lirc/0.8.6/build/drivers/lirc_dev/lirc_dev.c:35:28: error: linux/autoconf.h: No such file or directory
make[4]: *** [/var/lib/dkms/lirc/0.8.6/build/drivers/lirc_dev/lirc_dev.o] Error 1
make[3]: *** [_module_/var/lib/dkms/lirc/0.8.6/build/drivers/lirc_dev] Error 2
make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.33-020633-generic'
make[2]: *** [lirc_dev.o] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/lib/dkms/lirc/0.8.6/build/drivers/lirc_dev'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/lib/dkms/lirc/0.8.6/build/drivers'
make: *** [dev] Error 2

I still get the errors with the patch from RK, the patch from Marc and with the patched packages from Thomas the same error like managementboy.
I'm using custom kernel 2.6.33 packages.

@managementboy: maybe, but you can easily create that link:

sudo ln -s ../../include/generated/autoconf.h /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.33-020633-generic/include/linux/autoconf.h

... then, (re-) install the package that Thomas C helpfully created to trigger rebuilding.

What again is preventing this from being fixed officially?

@RK: Thanks! that did the trick.

if anyone wants to copy this: you need to change to the directory where you want the link to be placed, then create the symlink. After that you can install the new kernel packages. I used these to test on Karmic http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/daily/2010-03-20-karmic/

This bug was fixed in the package lirc - 0.8.6-0ubuntu4

---------------
lirc (0.8.6-0ubuntu4) lucid; urgency=low

  [ Mario Limonciello ]
  * debian/patches/lirc-i2c-2.6.patch:
    - Fixes building lirc-i2c on kernel 2.6.32 (LP: #513042)
  * Enable building wpc8769l module. Thanks Greg Vickers. (LP: #508266)
  * debian/patches/lirc_dev-2.6.33.patch:
    - Fixes lirc_dev to work with 2.6.33 as well. Useful for people who use
      the kernel mainline PPA. (LP: #529514)
    - Thanks RK & MarkRandolph.
  * debian/patches/appleir_repeat_issue.patch:
    - Fix apple IR key repeat issue by backporting patch from LIRC CVS.
      (LP: #440466)
    - Thanks Chase Douglas for sharing this patch.

  [ Jeremy Yoder ]
  * Fix /regression in /etc/init.d/lirc where if both REMOTE and TRANSMITTER
    are selected the symlinks /dev/lircd and /dev/lircd1 both point to
    /var/run/lirc/lircd.
  * Fix related bug where if the user sets TRANSMITTER_SOCKET in hardware.conf
    a "1" is appended even though it doesn't need to be.
 -- Mario Limonciello <email address hidden> Sun, 28 Mar 2010 00:12:34 -0500

Sorry, but I have the same still the same problem in 10.04:

ProblemType: Package
DKMSBuildLog:
 DKMS make.log for lirc-0.8.6 for kernel 2.6.35-22-generic (x86_64)
 Sat Nov 6 00:34:34 CET 2010
 mkdir modules
 make -C drivers SUBDIRS="lirc_dev"
 make[1]: Entering directory `/var/lib/dkms/lirc/0.8.6/build/drivers'
 Making all in lirc_dev
 make[2]: Entering directory `/var/lib/dkms/lirc/0.8.6/build/drivers/lirc_dev'
 cp ./../lirc_dev/Module*.symvers .
 cp: cannot stat `./../lirc_dev/Module*.symvers': No such file or directory
 make[2]: [lirc_dev.o] Error 1 (ignored)
 mv Makefile Makefile.automake
 cp ./../Makefile.kernel Makefile
 CPPFLAGS="" CFLAGS="" LDFLAGS="" \
  make -C /lib/modules/2.6.35-22-generic/build SUBDIRS=/var/lib/dkms/lirc/0.8.6/build/drivers/lirc_dev modules \
   KBUILD_VERBOSE=1
 make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.35-22-generic'
 test -e include/generated/autoconf.h -a -e include/config/auto.conf || ( \
  echo; \
  echo " ERROR: Kernel configuration is invalid."; \
  echo " include/generated/autoconf.h or include/config/auto.conf are missing.";\
  echo " Run 'make oldconfig && make prepare' on kernel src to fix it."; \
  echo; \
  /bin/false)
 mkdir -p /var/lib/dkms/lirc/0.8.6/build/drivers/lirc_dev/.tmp_versions ; rm -f /var/lib/dkms/lirc/0.8.6/build/drivers/lirc_dev/.tmp_versions/*
 make -f scripts/Makefile.build obj=/var/lib/dkms/lirc/0.8.6/build/drivers/lirc_dev
   gcc -Wp,-MD,/var/lib/dkms/lirc/0.8.6/build/drivers/lirc_dev/.lirc_dev.o.d -nostdinc -isystem /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.4.3/include -I/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.35-22-generic/arch/x86/include -Iinclude -include include/generated/autoconf.h -Iubuntu/include -D__KERNEL__ -Wall -Wundef -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -Werror-implicit-function-declaration -Wno-format-security -fno-delete-null-pointer-checks -O2 -m64 -mtune=generic -mno-red-zone -mcmodel=kernel -funit-at-a-time -maccumulate-outgoing-args -fstack-protector -DCONFIG_AS_CFI=1 -DCONFIG_AS_CFI_SIGNAL_FRAME=1 -DCONFIG_AS_CFI_SECTIONS=1 -pipe -Wno-sign-compare -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables -mno-sse -mno-mmx -mno-sse2 -mno-3dnow -Wframe-larger-than=1024 -fno-omit-frame-pointer -fno-optimize-sibling-calls -pg -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wno-pointer-sign -fno-strict-overflow -fconserve-stack -DIRCTL_DEV_MAJOR=61 -DEXPORT_SYMTAB -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -I/var/lib/dkms/lirc/0.8.6/build/drivers/lirc_dev/. -I/var/lib/dkms/lirc/0.8.6/build/drivers/lirc_dev/ -I/var/lib/dkms/lirc/0.8.6/build/drivers/lirc_dev/../.. -I/var/lib/dkms/lirc/0.8.6/build/drivers/lirc_dev/../.. -I/lib/modules/2.6.35-22-generic/build/include/ -I/lib/modules/2.6.35-22-generic/build/drivers/media/video/ -DMODULE -D"KBUILD_STR(s)=#s" -D"KBUILD_BASENAME=KBUILD_STR(lirc_dev)" -D"KBUILD_MODNAME=KBUILD_STR(lirc_dev)" -c -o /var/lib/dkms/lirc/0.8.6/build/drivers/lirc_dev/.tmp_lirc_dev.o /var/lib/dkms/lirc/0.8.6/build/drivers/lirc_dev/lirc_dev.c
 /var/lib/dkms/lirc/0.8.6/build/drivers/lirc_dev/lirc_dev.c:35:28: error: linux/autoconf.h: No such file or directory
 make[4]: *** [/var/lib/dkms/lirc/0.8.6/build/drivers/lirc_dev/lirc_dev.o] Erro...