Hi,
FYI:
1) Don't use irmanager!
2) I have no problem using -test11-pre6. This mail was sent using IrLAN in that
kernel ;-)
Try again without irmanager! Run irattach directly!
-- Dag
On Fri, 17 Nov 2000 21:22:07 +0400 (GMT-4), you wrote:
> Ok, so i've got a bit further with pre5 and pre6 of 2.4.0-test-11,
> but it appears that irmanager and irattach won't start because
> it looks like the latest irda patches take out the /proc device
> registration of the irda module from the kernel
>
> linux/net/irda/irmod.c
> ....snip...
> - irda.dev.fops = &irda_fops;
> -
> - misc_register(&irda.dev);
> -
> - irda.in_use = FALSE;
> -
> ....snip...
>
> so now irmanager.c does this twice in main()
>
> minor = lookup_dev("irda");
> if (minor < 0 ) {
> load_module("irda");
> minor = lookup_dev("irda");
> }
>
> and then carries on with a bogus minor (-19 as the error return code)
> and totally fails. Dag this need to be fixed - i.e. checking the return
> codes.
>
> So it appears pre5/6 of the latest kernel patch doesn't work if you don't
> have a FIR mode device. My laptop doesn't have a recoginised FIR device
> so i need to use SIR. As a result if i start irattach manually on
> my serial port, since irmanager is not running i an easily get the kernel
> to panic quite easily as it the irda module needs support from the
> userland deamon which obviously won't start.
>
> Was it intentional to take our SIR mode support ?
>
> thanx
> Mitch
>
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