Hi Linus,

On Thu, 2014-01-02 at 11:11 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:

The odd thing is that I *have* seen it work, a couple of times, so
it's not like it *never* works (in which case I'd just think that the
above simply isn't even supposed to work at all), but the "it actually
worked" is a very rare occurrence. Most of the time opening the ircomm
blocks. But sometimes it works after a few seconds. Very odd.

I'm pretty sure the stack was never designed nor tested for that kind of
usage, so I'm even surprised it ever worked for you.

Samuel is listed as maintainer, but I'm getting the feeling he has
long since moved on.

That's correct, and the MAINTAINERS file should be updated I guess.
The combination of my last IrDA enabled phone dying and the IrDA
association removing my access to the specs significantly lowered my
interest.

Cheers,
Samuel.