From: Samuel Ortiz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2007 03:57:29 +0200
> This patch allows us to bypass the IrDA stack down to the IrLAP level. > Sending and receiving frames is done through a character device. > This is useful for e.g. doing real IrDA sniffing, testing external IrDA > stacks and for Lirc (once I will add the framing disabling switch). > > Signed-off-by: Samuel Ortiz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I understand the idea, but I fail to see any reason this should not be done with sockets. Everywhere else we provide this kind of functionality it is either with netlink (nf_queue etc.) or raw sockets of some kind (AF_INET/SOCK_RAW, AF_PACKET, etc.) Therefore IRDA should really provide this facility in some similar manner. Besides, character device backdoors for networking are just ugly :) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
