CONFIG_IR_TOY not enabled for 5.13, 5.14, 5.15 (but was enabled older versions)

[seanyoung]

Describe the bug

The IR Toy has a kernel driver makes it possible to use it with standard IR tooling (ir-ctl, ir-keytable). This module is not enabled on newer kernels. It was enabled on kernel 5.10.

Steps to reproduce the behaviour

• Insert IR Toy or IR Droid device
• Notice there is no /dev/lirc0 device
• Device cannot be used

Device (s)

Raspberry Pi 3 Mod. B

System

Neither the 5.13, 5.14 and 5.15 tree has this option in the defconfig, see https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/blob/rpi-5.15.y/arch/arm64/configs/bcm2711_defconfig

Logs

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Additional context

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[pelwell]

I'm not sure what happened there, but IR_TOY should be enabled in future builds.

[seanyoung]

Thank you!

[seanyoung]

@dax-se

[dax-se]

@pelwell and @seanyoung: Thanks a lot for quick help!

[popcornmix]

Should be in latest rpi-update kernel.