On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 02:12:51PM -0500, Andrew Sutton wrote:
> > Ah... Fun...
> >
> > > jean this is mainly directed to you,
> > > but anybody else with input is welcome to respond.
> >
> > Me ? Why ?
>
> i understood you were the new maintainer and seem to be responsible for
> putting all the patches together :) besides, since dag left it seems that you
> are now the most knowledgable about the irda stack.
I should have put some smileys...
> > The only way to make the discovery/expiration quicker is to
> > decrease the period of discovery. You can't discover/expire until you
> > do the next discovery, which is every 3s.
>
> we've fudged around with the timers and it yields some improvement - which is
> good, but we're still looking for a little more reactivity.
Depend on your definition of reacivity, but things won't
happen faster than the discovery period. All the API will make the
event propagation in the software faster, but you will hit this limit.
> > Correct. What you want is to export the event through the
> > netlink socket API. For example, you could use a RTnetlink
> > event. That's what I've started to do for 802.11.
>
> that sounds pretty interesting. is there any documentation online for this?
> besides the comments on your web page?
Not sure. I just had a look in the kernel source, as usual...
> > What works with select is the IrNET control channel.
> > If you preload (but don't use) the IrNET module on each
> > device, you could do select+read on /dev/irnet and get your
> > event. That would be the simplest solution. Just try it.
>
> eww... that's kind of kludge :) using irnet to implement an irttp protocol.
> sounds like it will work though.
;-)
> that sounds pretty interesting. is the irnet stuff tied into the netlink
> sockets?
No, IrNET use it's own event channel because I had a spare
pseudo TTY that I could use for that.
> i'm not going to be the one implementing - i'm just the point man so
> i'm trying to get as much info as possible.
>
> as an afterthought: would there be any benefit moving the irda stack to use
> the new wireless drivers - since irda is primarily wireless protocol - or are
> they so different that it wouldn't make sense.
I don't think it woukld make sense.
> thanks,
>
> andrew sutton
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jean
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