>
> I have an impression from somewhere that this is a development that has
> occurred to deal with IRDA transmission modes. It allows direct drive...
>

This fits with what I found.  When you turn IrDA on in this device, the line
inverts by default.  They then added the "invert" bit, which you can enable
if you don't agree with their design.
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