Comment 0 for bug 1926030

I use an IR remote with the ir-keytable package. Everything was working fine until kernel 5.8.0-49 was automatically installed by Software Updater on Ubuntu 20.04.2. When any key is pressed on the remote, the key is repeated about 500 times. The kernel is now 5.8.0-50, and the problem persists.

Other users on the MythTV mailing list are reporting the issue, and it appears that the problem is related to changes in the following files:

drivers/media/rc/ir-mce_kbd-decoder.c
drivers/media/rc/rc-main.c b/drivers/media/rc/rc-main.c
drivers/media/rc/serial_ir.c

It has been reported that reverting the ir-mce_kbd-decoder.c and rc-main.c files to the older versions fixes the problem.

/proc/version_signature > version.log:
Ubuntu 5.8.0-50.56~20.04.1-generic 5.8.18

lspci -vnvn:
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v6/7th Gen Core Processor Host Bridge/DRAM Registers [8086:590f] (rev 06)
 Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Xeon E3-1200 v6/7th Gen Core Processor Host Bridge/DRAM Registers [1043:8694]
 Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
 Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort+ >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
 Latency: 0
 Capabilities: [e0] Vendor Specific Information: Len=10 <?>
 Kernel driver in use: skl_uncore

ir-keytable -V:
IR keytable control version 1.18.0

lsb_release -rd:
Description: Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS
Release: 20.04