On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 08:40:39AM -0700, Paul Telford wrote: > On Tue, 28 Jun 2005, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > > I recently adopted the toshset package and saw the bug you filed > > requesting integration of Toshsat1800-irdasetup. I looked at the > > upstream home page and it appears to not have been developed for over 3 > > years. > > Hi Roberto, > > Thanks for your message. This utility is still valid for current laptops > (HP nc6000, for example). To my knowledge it is the only way to properly > initialize these irda chipsets under Linux. I have never attempted to > contact the upstream author, but it seems like no further development is > needed unless an RC bug is found -- the program does only one very > specific task, and in my experience, does it correctly every time (on my > machine anyway). > > Thanks, > > > Paul.
OK. That sounds reasonable. The only thing is, after looking at the upstream page, that it appears to create a kernel module. That requires some special handling and might make it a better candidate for a separate package. For example, the smc-ircc module, is that part of toshsat1800-irdasetup or part of the kernel? Also, does it work with both 2.6 and 2.4 or only 2.4 kernels? -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr
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