Any brave dive computer download testers out there?

Linus Torvalds torvalds at linux-foundation.org
Wed Apr 18 12:00:53 PDT 2018


On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 11:57 AM, Sébastien Dugué
<sebastien.dugue.subsurface at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Note that IRDA support is going away in the kernel, though - we had
>> too many bugs and it was impossible to maintain. So you'll have to use
>> an older kernel.
>
>   Arghhh! You mean the whole stack? Darn! will have to keep some old
> kernel just for loading my dives... :-(

Yeah, all of irda is going away in 4.17.

Nobody was using it, and nobody was maintaining it.

I'd love to bring it back, but it would need a maintainer.. Hint hint.

               Linus


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