Re: IrDA woes..

[Samuel Ortiz <samuel@sortiz.org>]

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.