From ae04ed07673cc1d92ebaecae1fe8911ce4734fbd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sean Young <sean@mess.org>
Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2018 11:04:32 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] lirc.4: Timeout reports are enabled by default

Signed-off-by: Sean Young <sean@mess.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
---
 man4/lirc.4 | 9 ++++++++-
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/man4/lirc.4 b/man4/lirc.4
index 526d8432c..6e9a94a66 100644
--- a/man4/lirc.4
+++ b/man4/lirc.4
@@ -273,7 +273,14 @@ is 1) or disable
 .RI ( val
 is 0) timeout packages in
 .BR LIRC_MODE_MODE2 .
-By default, timeout reports should be turned off.
+Each time the
+.BR lirc
+device is opened, timeout reports are enabled for that
+file descriptor since kernel release 4.16.
+In earlier releases, timeout reports were disabled by default, and once
+enabled, enabled for all
+.BR lirc
+file descriptors until turned off again.
 .TP
 .BR LIRC_SET_REC_CARRIER " (\fIint\fP)"
 Set the receive carrier frequency (Hz).