Comment 11 for bug 125384

Is that possible? Lost functions are provided by an external module (bttv), so if you want to implement those functions inside lirc_gpio, it should have access to the internal implementation of bttv. And that would require to export all the variables and functions that those 2 functions use, to be visible by lirc_gpio...

Mmmm... I don't think it's a good idea. It's a lot simplier just adding that code to those 2 files in the kernel sources, IMHO.