Re: Discovering IRDA models

[Sean Atkinson]

Hi Powel,

I'd considered the case when many were in range, and I think the best
behaviour would be to report an error for automatic detection or just
proceed as normal if a preferred model is specified.

I'd planned on adding this to the configuration, and hadn't anticipated
too much complication so hopefully I'll have a first patch to offer for
review soon.

Cheers,

Sean.


On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 15:11 +0200, Pawel Kot wrote:
> 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