Re: IrDA-patched binaries

[jason@openinformatics.com (Jason E. Stewart)]

"Michel Dänzer" <michdaen@iiic.ethz.ch> writes:

> "Jason E. Stewart" wrote:
> > 
> > "Jonas Smedegaard" <dr@jones.dk> writes:
> > 
> > > I have made available kernel and irda-packages with the irda-hacks
> > > added to make .
> > 
> > I was totally thrilled to see this. Because of reiserfs, I need to
> > compile my own kernel, so I grabbed the patches a couple of weeks
> > ago. I just had time to look at them and it seems that parameters.h
> > has changed a *lot* since this patch was made.
> > 
> > >From BenH's latest kernel:
> > 
> > typedef union {
> >         char   *c;
> >         __u32   i;
> >         __u32 *ip;
> > } irda_pv_t;
> 
> Yup, 2.4.15-pre2 has my better fix. :)

sorry Michel, I don't understand. Is the irda_pv_t listed above your
fix? Or will your fix being showing up in BenH's kernel soon, or??? 

> Now we're working on fixing macserial such that the 'cat /dev/ttyS1
> trick' isn't needed anymore...

Hmmm.. Sorry, must have missed that one. What is the trick, and why is
it needed?

Thanks,
jas.