Re: [PATCH 0/4] irda: move it to drivers/staging so we can delete it
From: Ondrej Zary <hidden>
Date: 2017-08-31 07:31:22
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On Thursday 31 August 2017, Greg KH wrote:
On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 11:32:58PM +0200, Ondrej Zary wrote:quoted
On Tuesday 29 August 2017 01:42:08 David Miller wrote:quoted
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2017 17:03:30 +0200quoted
The IRDA code has long been obsolete and broken. So, to keep people from trying to use it, and to prevent people from having to maintain it, let's move it to drivers/staging/ so that we can delete it entirely from the kernel in a few releases.No objection, I'll apply this to net-next, thanks Greg.IRDA works fine in Debian 9 (kernel 4.9) and I use it for simple file transfer. Hope I'm not the only one... # irattach /dev/ttyS0 -d tekram -s # irdadump 21:28:52.830350 xid:cmd aed8eb79 > ffffffff S=6 s=0 (14) 21:28:52.922368 xid:cmd aed8eb79 > ffffffff S=6 s=1 (14) 21:28:53.014350 xid:cmd aed8eb79 > ffffffff S=6 s=2 (14) 21:28:53.106338 xid:cmd aed8eb79 > ffffffff S=6 s=3 (14) 21:28:53.190276 xid:rsp aed8eb79 < 000035d1 S=6 s=3 Nokia 6230i hint=b125 [ PnP Modem Fax Telephony IrCOMM IrOBEX ] (28) 21:28:53.198384 xid:cmd aed8eb79 > ffffffff S=6 s=4 (14) 21:28:53.290382 xid:cmd aed8eb79 > ffffffff S=6 s=5 (14) 21:28:53.382341 xid:cmd aed8eb79 > ffffffff S=6 s=* pentium hint=0400 [ Computer ] (23) ^C 8 packets received by filter $ obexftp -i -l MMC Connecting..\done Receiving "MMC".../<?xml version="1.0"?> <!DOCTYPE folder-listing SYSTEM "obex-folder-listing.dtd" [ <!ATTLIST folder mem-type CDATA #IMPLIED> ]> <folder-listing version="1.0"> <parent-folder /> <file name="Image000.jpg" size="304300" modified="20160219T135924" user-perm="RWD"/> <file name="Image001.jpg" size="270037" modified="20170811T233122" user-perm="RWD"/> <file name="Image004.jpg" size="53519" modified="20170814T074550" user-perm="RWD"/> .... $ obexftp -i -c MMC -g Image004.jpg Connecting..\done Sending "MMC"...|done Receiving "Image004.jpg"...-done Disconnecting..\doneOdd, and is this just a ir device connected to a "real" serial port, or a specific IRDA device? thanks, greg k-h
Yes, it's an external IrDA dongle connected to a real serial port. I also have an ARK3116-based USB IrDA dongle and some laptops with integrated IrDA ports that used to work fine but haven't tested them recently (i.e. Debian 9). -- Ondrej Zary