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  LINKING THE LIRC SERIAL DRIVER STATICALLY INTO THE KERNEL 
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If you want to include the LIRC Serial Driver statically into your Kernel,
try this package.

!BIG FAT WARNING! I only tried this with a 2.2.9 Kernel. With my Receiver
it seems to work but i will give no guarantee. If it deletes your Harddisk
don't blame me for that.



If you want to try this with other Kernels, then you should NOT use the
patched kernel files included in this package. There are only little
Modifications i made to this files. In the <Makefile> i appended <lirc.o>
to the L_OBJS line, this line looks now like this:

L_OBJS := tty_io.o n_tty.o tty_ioctl.o mem.o random.o lirc.o

Secondly i added some lines in <mem.c> to start the lirc code. At the
start of <mem.c> i included a extern function declaration < extern int
lirc_init(void) > and at the end i added a function call < lirc_init(); >.
Both are marked with the Comment /* LIRC PATCH */.



Here the things you have to do, to build a Kernel with statically linked
lirc_serial driver:

1. Backup your original <Makefile> and <mem.c> in drivers/char in your
   Kerneldirectory [usually /usr/src/linux]. Now copy the
   replacements included in this package [or your own modified files] to
   this place.

2. configure your Kernel
   # make menuconfig
   # make dep ; make clean

3. Now cd to the directory of the driver and edit <lirc.h> to set your
   Parameters [LIRC_PORT, LIRC_IRQ, LIRC_MAJOR]

4. compile the driver
   # make

5. After sucessful compiling copy the <lirc.o> file into to the kernel
   source tree
   # cp lirc.o /usr/src/linux/drivers/char

6. # cd /usr/src/linux

7. build your new kernel
   # make bzImage


-<karsten.scheibler@bigfoot.de>-----------------------------------1999-JUL-01-