Re: [Bluez-devel] rfcomm kernel 2.6.19 probs

[Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>]

Hi Johannes,

> 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?

my guess is that your udev version is too old, because everything works
fine for me.

Regards

Marcel



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