USTIR(4)

📦 version 11.0, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 USTIR(4) 💅

okay so this is from the Kernel Interfaces Manual, bestie — welcome to the ustir era 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

ustir — the whole vibe of supporting SigmaTel STIr4200-based USB-IrDA bridges 💖

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

ustir*   at uhub?
irframe* at ustir?

like, that's the entire configuration. sleek. iconic. no notes. ✨

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so the ustir driver is the one that's got your back for USB-IrDA bridges built on the SigmaTel STIr4200. it's literally the whole point of it. 💅

and it's known to work with this one absolute legend of an adapter:

  • Mars II 740 USB IrDA Adapter

getting to the actual IrDA device? you go through the irframe(4) driver — that's the door, that's the way in, periodt. 🚪✨

🎀 SEE ALSO 🎀

go read those too, bestie, they're all part of the family 👑

⭐ HISTORY ⭐

the ustir driver showed up in NetBSD 1.6 — so it's been serving looks since way back 📅💫

💜 AUTHORS 💜

the ustir driver was written by David Sainty <dsainty@NetBSD.org> — absolute main character energy, we stan 🫶👑

💀 BUGS 💀

okay so this is the part where we get real, no cap:

the STIr4200 cannot notify the driver when it has received data 😭 like, it just won't tell anyone. instead it has to be continuously polled — forever, nonstop, like it's needy or something 🙈

this driver polls (when idle) at a fairly low rate of 10 times per second, which is honestly not bad — it means system performance is not overly affected by rapid polling 🌈 but the tradeoff is real: latency is fairly high 🐌💀

so like... it works, but don't expect it to be snappy. the vibes are "chill and steady," not "lightning fast." iykyk 🧚

okay that's the whole page, bestie!! this one came to you from Debian, dated December 24, 2001 — a whole vintage moment 🎀✨ stay slay, go read your manpages, mwah 💋

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