lirc_serial module no longer in the kernel extra package

[Tristan Tarrant]

Up to Ubuntu 16.10 the kernel extras contained the lirc_serial, but since 17.04 it is no longer part of the package.

[Tristan Tarrant (tristan-tarrant-gmail)]

/lib/modules$ ls
4.10.0-22-generic 4.10.0-26-generic 4.8.0-53-generic

$ find . -name 'lirc_serial.ko'
./4.8.0-53-generic/kernel/drivers/staging/media/lirc/lirc_serial.ko

$ dpkg -S /lib/modules/4.8.0-53-generic/kernel/drivers/staging/media/lirc/lirc_serial.k
linux-image-extra-4.8.0-53-generic: /lib/modules/4.8.0-53-generic/kernel/drivers/staging/media/lirc/lirc_serial.ko

as you can see, linux-image-extra 4.8.0 contains the module, but 4.10.x does not

[Gianfranco Costamagna (costamagnagianfranco)]

this happened in the kernel
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=fa5dc29c1fcc9151c3bcfd9e291a2899ae15f61d

commit fa5dc29c1fcc9151c3bcfd9e291a2899ae15f61d
Author: Sean Young <email address hidden>
Date: Mon Nov 21 19:55:53 2016 -0200

    [media] lirc_serial: move out of staging and rename to serial_ir

    Signed-off-by: Sean Young <email address hidden>

:100644 100644 3db2078e0e47... 52cc0775a799... M MAINTAINERS
:100644 100644 370e16e07867... 629e8ca15ab3... M drivers/media/rc/Kconfig
:100644 100644 379a5c0f1379... 3a984ee301e2... M drivers/media/rc/Makefile
:100644 100644 9691ba4d55b9... ba83b20913cd... R099 drivers/staging/media/lirc/lirc_serial.c drivers/media/rc/serial_ir.c
:100644 100644 6879c4651b46... 25b7e7ccf554... M drivers/staging/media/lirc/Kconfig
:100644 100644 5430adf0475d... 7f919eab1989... M drivers/staging/media/lirc/Makefile