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Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2018 20:24:46 +0000 From: bugzilla-dae...@bugzilla.kernel.org To: step...@networkplumber.org Subject: [Bug 198657] New: irda scheduled for removal https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198657 Bug ID: 198657 Summary: irda scheduled for removal Product: Networking Version: 2.5 Kernel Version: 4.14 Hardware: All OS: Linux Tree: Mainline Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: P1 Component: Other Assignee: step...@networkplumber.org Reporter: ker...@cschramm.eu Regression: No Hi, I just wanted to do my regular download from my dive computer, plugged in my USB IrDA dongle, ran irattach, hit the download button in surbsurface and got an error message. It turns out that my system does not support AF_IRDA anymore after upgrading to Linux 4.14 as the Linux developers scheduled the subsystem for removal and the Debian maintainers decided to disable it already due to that. It seems like I am not the only one surprised by the statement that nobody seems to use it and it's broken: https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/8/29/773 libdivecomputer does use it [1] and I do use it via libdivecomputer. It works fine. While I agree that IrDA isn't the best decision today, my dive computer is neither exotic nor very old. [1] https://github.com/libdivecomputer/libdivecomputer/blob/master/src/irda.c I ask you to reconsider the decision to drop the irda subsystem. Regards -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
