Re: Discovering IRDA models

[Pawel Kot]

Hi Sean,

2005/8/26, Sean Atkinson <address@hidden>:
> I've got more than one mobile phone model I'd like to use infra-red
> with, specifically Nokia phone models 6230 and 8310.  Currently I have
> to edit the "model =" in gnokiirc each time I want to switch.
> 
> However it occurred to me that this model information should be
> available from /proc/net/irda/discovery whenever infra-red communication
> with the phone is available.  Therefore I propose to add a new virtual
> model called irda / auto / discover or similar, which will lookup
> suitable models from a list and work automatically in such cases.

What about the situation when more then one phone is in range? Anyway
I think the implementation will be not that easy -- you need to choose
the correct driver, so the whole discovery thing should be done on
config parsing stage.

take care,
pkot
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Pawel Kot
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