[Bluez-devel] rfcomm kernel 2.6.19 probs

[johannes hoerhan <jhoe@aon.at>]

I am using bluetooth to conntect my laptop and my palm for browsing the 
web to my linux workstation. Everything were working perfect untill I 
updated to kernel 2.6.19.
The devices could not connect to my workstation anymore - got a timeout 
error. Currently I am running:
Workstation:
gentoo-2006.1,
kernel 2.6.19-r2
bluez-libs 2.25
bluez-utils 2.25-r1

In my workstation's log I found:
kernel message: rfcomm_tty_ioctl: TIOCGSERIAL is not supported.
and the /dev/rfcommX device is not created.

For troubleshooting I had a look at you patch 2.6.18-mh8 and found out 
that this patches tty.c. I found out that "reversing" the patch at

net/bluetooth/rfcomm/tty.c
In function:
    static struct device *rfcomm_get_device(struct rfcomm_dev *dev)
    ....
    /*tty_register_device(rfcomm_tty_driver, dev->id, 
rfcomm_get_device(dev));*/
    tty_register_device(rfcomm_tty_driver, dev->id, NULL);

is enough to get everything working again.

So my questions: is this a bug or do I have to change my setup? Is there 
any other solution than patching the file each time updating the kernel?

regards,
  johoe

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