Re: [PATCH 0/4] irda: move it to drivers/staging so we can delete it

Greg KH
2017-08-31T04:30:40Z

On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 11:32:58PM +0200, Ondrej Zary wrote:
> On Tuesday 29 August 2017 01:42:08 David Miller wrote:
> > From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> > Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2017 17:03:30 +0200
> >
> > > 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..\done

Odd, and is this just a ir device connected to a "real" serial port, or
a specific IRDA device?

thanks,

greg k-h