Bug#891502: ITP: irda-dkms -- IrDA subsystem and device drivers
Christopher Schramm <debian@cschramm.eu> writes:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Christopher Schramm <debian@cschramm.eu>
>
> * Package name : irda-dkms
> Version : 0.1
> * URL : https://github.com/cschramm/irda
> * License : GPL
> Programming Lang: C
> Description : IrDA subsystem and device drivers
>
> The IrDA subsystem and device drivers got moved to staging and scheduled for
> removal upstream in Linux 4.14 [1] and consequently disabled in the Debian
> builds [2].
>
> [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/8/27/126
> [2] https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/kernel/linux.git/commit/?id=d12b3a11b2800489cde0be2d74872af04b5b8f36
>
> As I personally do have a use case for IrDA and am sure that I am not the only
> one, I moved the code (from 4.15; not compatible to 4.14!) into a GitHub
> repository [3], converted the build system to Kbuild files, and added a DKMS
> configuration and a Travis CI configuration to check the build with current
> kernel releases.
>
> [3] https://github.com/cschramm/irda
>
> I already prepared the packaging files. See [4] for copyright and license.
>
> [4] https://github.com/cschramm/irda/blob/debian/debian/copyright
Why not raise your hand and offer to maintain IrDA in mainline instead?
The problems causing it to be shceduled for removal will not be
magically solved by reviving the code on github. There is real work
required here. And maintaining the code out-of-tree is going to be much
much harder than keeping it in mainline. Noone else will look at
out-of-tree code even if they break it by changing some API. And you
end up having to support multiple versions of the APIs as they change.
But maybe you already offered to take over IrDA and I just missed it?
Bjørn
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