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Message-ID: <20070115172912.GA3323@pingi.kke.suse.de>
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 18:29:12 +0100
From: Karsten Keil <kkeil@...e.de>
To: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...dspring.com>
Cc: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@...p.cc>,
Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
kkeil@...e.de
Subject: Re: any value to fixing apparent bugs in old ISDN4Linux?
On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 12:17:37PM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Jan 2007, Tilman Schmidt wrote:
>
> > Robert P. J. Day schrieb:
> > > OTOH, since that code *is* in the allegedly obsolete old ISDN4Linux
> > > code, perhaps that entire part of the tree can just be junked. but if
> > > it's sticking around, it should probably be fixed.
> >
> > Please do not remove isdn4linux just yet. It's true that it has been
> > marked as obsolete for quite some time, but it's still needed
> > anyway. Its designated successor, the CAPI subsystem, so far only
> > supports a very limited range of hardware. Dropping isdn4linux now
> > would leave the owners of some very popular ISDN cards out in the
> > cold.
>
> that wouldn't be my decision, i just made a note of an oddity. but if
> it's still in actual use, then it really should be re-labelled from
> "obsolete" to "deprecated," no?
>
Good point.
--
Karsten Keil
SuSE Labs
ISDN development
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