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Martin Roos <kulminaator@gmail.com> writes:

> imho freebsd's kernel couldn't possible really recognize any usb irda
> dongle because it really wouldn't have any idea what to 'do' with the
> device without an implementation of irda stack.

What makes you think that the irda protocol stack should be implemented
in kernel ?

Birda is a userland irda stack that uses a serial device as transport
media.

Éric Masson

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