The project started at the end of 1997 with the name Linux/IrDA. Due to some troubles with the name IrDA, which is trademarked by the Infrared Data Association <idx>IrDA</idx>, the name was changed to Linux/IR. At the end of 1998 the the relationship between both became better and the name was changed to Linux/IrDA again. Since February 1999 the project is an official member of IrDA .
Companies and developers which are interested in joining these efforts should contact the at Linux/IrDA Project or me at .
The Linux/IrDA project has undertaken some changes in the program code, which you should know to understand some confusions.
For 2.0.x kernels Linux/IrDA support worked in a totally other way and is no longer supported by the Linux/IrDA project. Since 2.1.131 and 2.2.0 Linux/IrDA is part of the kernel. Please note that the status of the project just changed from experimental to stable with 2.2.10 kernels.
Some caveats are sometimes caused by changes of the following parameters (Hope I have got them alright now, they confused me sometimes, too):
irmanager are now achieved by irattachircomm_tty changed to ircomm-ttyirnine changed to ircomm_new