On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 9:07 PM, Linus Torvalds
<[email protected]> wrote:
>> I'd love to bring it back, but it would need a maintainer.. Hint hint.
>
> And by "it", I don't actually mean all of irda. irda is dead, dead,
> dead. But maybe the actual individual driver that somebody is willing
> to maintain, and a small subset of the stack.
>
> The irda code deletion is commit d64c2a76123f ("staging: irda: remove
> the irda network stack and drivers"), and it's a rather impressibe
> number of garbage lines:
>
>  137 files changed, 69241 deletions(-)

  Ouch!

>
> so I'm afraid that a potential maintainer would have to prune it down
> to the minimal that he/she actually uses and can test.

  Right, only bring back those pieces that are of interest. I'll take a look
at this, but I'm not really into bloated communication stacks... I'm merely
a low-level driver coder.

  Sébastien.
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