Re: [PATCH 8/9] tty: ircomm: remove dead and broken ioctl code

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Tue, Jun 06, 2017 at 12:27:04PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Tue,  6 Jun 2017 12:54:40 +0200
> Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Remove three ifdefed and broken implementations of TIOCSSERIAL and
> > TIOCGICOUNT, and parity handling in set_termios which had suffered
> > severe bit rot.
> 
> I would be amazed if the IRDA code still works. It's not been tested
> properly for years and it never followed the tty rules properly in the
> first place - so this looks good, although moving IRDA into staging
> and /dev/null would IMHO be far better.
> 
> IRDA is dead, and IR remotes are handled via completely different code.

I agree, and we should move it into staging and out of the tree, I'll
send netdev some patches for that...

thanks,

greg k-h