From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ondrej Zary Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] irda: move it to drivers/staging so we can delete it Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2017 23:32:58 +0200 Message-ID: <201708292332.58569.linux@rainbow-software.org> References: <20170827150334.32495-1-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> <20170828.164208.1908438929113102094.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, samuel@sortiz.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org To: David Miller Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20170828.164208.1908438929113102094.davem@davemloft.net> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Tuesday 29 August 2017 01:42:08 David Miller wrote: > From: Greg Kroah-Hartman > 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".../ ]> .... $ obexftp -i -c MMC -g Image004.jpg Connecting..\done Sending "MMC"...|done Receiving "Image004.jpg"...-done Disconnecting..\done -- Ondrej Zary