irmanager8

Usage

Overview

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irmanager is a user-space daemon that is inspired and quite similar to the cardmgr used in the PCMCIA distribution. For example, if IrLMP discovers a remote device with IrLAN provider capabilities and no local IrLAN client has registred, then IrLMP will send an event to the IrManager and make it modprobe the module required. When application level clients are ready for communication and user-space configuration, they can also notify IrManager about this, so that it can execute the right script. For example will IrLAN send the event EVENT_IRLAN_START when the data channel is ready for exchanging Ethernet frames. When IrManager receives this event, it will execute /etc/irda/network start <devname> to configure the network interface. If you use the RedHat variant of it, it will in turn execute /sbin/ifup<devname>

Options

-d

Start discovery process.

Examples

Example 1

irattach /dev/ttyS2 &

irmanager -d 1 &

Files

/etc/irda.

The IrManager will receive events from the kernel level side of the protocol stack. When the IrManager receives an event it can execute shell commands and scripts in /etc/irda.

Diagnostics

N.N.

Credits

Thanks to the Linux/IrDA core team and the members of the Linux/IrDA mailing list