... is out for testing. This is the first patch where those of you who are
interested, can have a look at the new device driver architecture. I
couldn't get 2.3.22 to boot myself, but the patch should work fine for
2.3.19-2.3.22 as well.
Some changes:
o Removed struct irda_device
o Speed is now tagged to each frame, and the device driver will have to
check each frame for the correct speed. This fixes the problems with
changing the speed when the device driver queue is non-empty.
o Irmanager is not needed anymore, except for IrLAN (which is not fixed for
this yet), and for automagically starting discovery, which should
probably be done by irattach instead. I expect irattach will be the only
tool to use in future (also for loading FIR drivers)
o Most drivers and dongles should work, except smc-ircc, uircc (not that
they have ever worked before), and airport. The airport dongle was very
hard to port, but I have not given up yet. As a compromise, I think we
should let the airport dongle require the use of irmanager, until we
figure it out.
o I have started to make changes which will make it easier to use the
device drivers for other infrared modes (like tv-remote) and for reading
data directly to user space as a tty. (work in progress)
Anyway, have a look if you are interested, and give me some comments. It
has been very hard to make these changes, but I guess some things are not
perfect yet. If you have any problems compiling, then just remove all lines
with #include <net/irda/dongle.h>
-- Dag
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