netdev - Re: IrDA woes..

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Date:	Sat, 4 Jan 2014 12:15:11 +0400
From:	Loganaden Velvindron <loganaden@...il.com>
To:	Samuel Ortiz <samuel@...tiz.org>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Network Development <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: IrDA woes..

On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 5:23 AM, Samuel Ortiz <samuel@...tiz.org> wrote:
> 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.

May we know what was the reason given to you ?


>
> Cheers,
> Samuel.
>
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