Bug#268746: lirc and irman: strange error message

[Skliarouk Arieh <arieh@tkos.co.il>]

package: lirc
version: 0.6.6-11

I have irman serial-port based IR receiver. It does not work and I get
obscure error message in /var/log/daemon.log when launching irw (lircd was
launched before):

lircd 0.6.6[3189]: lircd(any) ready
lircd 0.6.6[3189]: accepted new client on /dev/lircd
lircd 0.6.6[3189]: could not open /dev/lirc/0
lircd 0.6.6[3189]: irman_init(): Unknown error 515
lircd 0.6.6[3189]: caught signal

At the very least bugfix to this bug, I would like the error message
"Unknown error 515" to be elaborated. I did not found on internet any
references to the error message.

Actions I did:

I launced irrecord program and created lircd.conf file suitable for my
remote.

I rebuilt the kernel 2.6.7 with lirc patches and got lirc_sir and
lirc_serial modules.

My /etc/lirc/hardware.conf file contains following lines:
  #Try to load appropriate kernel modules
  LOAD_MODULES=true

  # Run "lircd --driver=help" for a list of supported drivers.
  DRIVER="irman"
  # If DEVICE is set to /dev/lirc and devfs is in use /dev/lirc/0 will be
  # automatically used instead
  DEVICE="/dev/lirc/0"
  MODULES="lirc_serial"

I am not sure about lirc_serial modules, should it be lirc_sir? Tried
both.

File /etc/serial.conf contains following line:
/dev/tts/0 uart none

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