Any brave dive computer download testers out there?

Sébastien Dugué sebastien.dugue.subsurface at gmail.com
Wed Apr 18 12:10:07 PDT 2018


On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 9:00 PM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds at linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> 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.

  OK, I'll revert back to a 2.4 kernel ;-)

>
> Nobody was using it, and nobody was maintaining it.

  I feel so lonely now!!!

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

  Looks like a bit daunting for me. However maybe a userspace approach
might be doable. Dunno. Will have to think a bit more about it.

  Sébastien.


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