I have an Antec case with an iMon knob device, as well as a serial port IR receiver. The knob produces events, so I don't need lirc for it. I also use the imon device for lcdproc. I run lirc, solely to communicate with the serial IR device. The current lirc init script attempts to modify the imon device in /sys/class/rc/rc0/protocols. This is unnecessary, as I don't intend to use that device with lirc, and furthermore, for reasons unknown, it occasionally causes the computer to fail to shut down. I don't particularly care why echoing "none" to /sys/class/rc/rc0/protocols hangs occasionally, because it isn't an operation that needs to be done at all on my system. I can edit the init script to prevent this happening, but I'd much prefer for there to be an option in /etc/lirc/hardware.conf to prevent in-kernel support from being disabled while i run lirc, and re-enabled when I stop it.
Attached is a patch with a suggested method.
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