I'm trying to port the IR support to LinxPPC and have had some partial success. I want 
to ask a few questions to help me go in the right direction.

1) Has anybody attempted adding IR support on LinuxPPC? I don't want to re-invent the 
wheel.

2) I'm having trouble understanding which patches to use and the order to instal them 
in. Here's my situation:

I need to use kernel 2.2.12 because none of the 2.3.x kernels will compile on a PPC 
system currently . A few weeks ago I read the following mailing list post from Dag 
Brattli:

"I've just put out patch-2.3.15-irda2 for testing. This patch must be
applied after patch-2.3.14-irda1, since it doesn't include this patch by
itself. It might also be possible to apply this after patch-2.2.12-irda1 as 
well (use --dry-run first)."

I applied patch-2.2.12-irda1 and patch-2.3.15-irda2 to the 2.2.12 kernel source from 
ftp.kernel.org. The patches installed fine and the kernel compiled fine. However I 
think I may have missed a step. The documentation at 
http://www.snafu.de/~wehe/IR-HOWTO-3.html describes changes that need to put in to the 
kernel source configuration, but doesn't explain what file these changes supposed to 
go in to. I don;t think I made these changes. I typically configure my kernel with 
'make menuconfig' or 'make xconfig'. Neither of these options showed IRDA options. If 
edit the config file by hand, which file do I need to edit, and will editing this 
file, break the menuconfig option?

3) Today I see the archives contain patch-2.2.12-irda1 and patch-2.2.12-irda3. I 
haven't seen any information about patch-2.2.12-irda3. If I want to patch kernel 
source 2.2.12 with the latest patches, which patches should I use and in what order? 
Does patch-2.2.12-irda3 replace patch-2.2.12-irda1 (as a newer version), or does it 
need to be installed on top/after patch-2.2.12-irda1? What about patch-2.2.12-irda2?

4) The irda-utils package won;t currently compile. Some include files seem to be 
missing from my system, including linux/irda.h. Are all the necessary files included 
with the kernel source, or do I need to get an additional package?

I hope to make some progress and get at least some of IRDA working. I'll let the list 
know of my progress.

Thanks in advance,

Dave
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