[Lucid] UBUNTU: Update lirc drivers to cvs version 2009.12.07

[Andy Whitcroft]

On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 10:01:32AM -0600, Mario Limonciello wrote:
> Hi Andy:
> 
> On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 08:35, Andy Whitcroft <apw at canonical.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 07:08:33PM -0600, Manoj Iyer wrote:
> > >
> > > Updated the lirc driver version to the latest cvs. I had to change the
> > > makefiles and modify the source to point to the correct header files. The
> > > source is set up to build under the lirc main tree, so had to modify few
> > > things to make it to build under ubuntu/ There was no BOM file for this
> > > driver so added a new one.
> >
> > Up to now we have been taking LIRC from official release tarballs.  A
> > quick look at the LIRC web-site seems to tell me that 0.8.6 is still the
> > current version of LIRC.  I think I am inclined to continue to stick
> > with those offical releases.
> >
> > Mario, you are the primary driver behind LIRC being included what is
> > your feeling?
> >
> > -apw
> >
> 
> This is why I was asking if something has broken recently with the new
> kernel.  I don't believe there is anything that will "break" currently by
> going to CVS, but we don't need to take that chance in upgrading
> unnecessarily.  There are a few commits i'd like to cherry pick here and
> there for things I know about, but pulling everything out of band from a
> release doesn't sound ideal to me.

Ok, I'll take that as a NAK on the update.  Please do get me the
proposed cherry-picks as soon as you can so we can get as much testing
time on them as possible.

Thanks.

-apw