From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Samuel Ortiz Subject: Re: IrDA woes.. Date: Sat, 04 Jan 2014 02:23:31 +0100 Message-ID: <1388798611.4326.11.camel@zurbaran> References: <20140102.034653.1968429090467668489.davem@davemloft.net> Reply-To: Samuel Ortiz Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: David Miller , Network Development To: Linus Torvalds Return-path: Received: from merlin.infradead.org ([205.233.59.134]:57732 "EHLO merlin.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753866AbaADBX6 (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Jan 2014 20:23:58 -0500 In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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.