linux-kernel - Re: Plans for mISDN? Was: [PATCH 00/14] [ISDN] ...

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Message-ID: <47BC370F.3000705@imap.cc>
Date:	Wed, 20 Feb 2008 15:19:59 +0100
From:	Tilman Schmidt <tilman@...p.cc>
To:	Gregory Nietsky <gregory@...worksentry.co.za>
CC:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>, Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, kkeil@...e.de,
	isdn4linux@...tserv.isdn4linux.de, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
Subject: Re: Plans for mISDN? Was: [PATCH 00/14] [ISDN] ...

Gregory Nietsky schrieb:
> ive been hackin away at mISDN for a while and use it with recent kernels 
>   2.6.2X and have a patch for 2.6.24 (move from semaphore to complition) 
> the distro we built is heavily reliant on mISDN (voip) i dont use the 
> isdn kernel drivers at all any longer.
> 
> im all for mISDN been mainlined into the kernel and the old stuff been 
> removed there could be users still it is marked as depricated and the 
> plan was with 2.6 to use mISDN from the start.

mISDN has two problems, which are of course interrelated:

a) complete lack of documentation for the in-kernel driver interface
    (equivalent of Documentation/isdn/INTERFACE)

b) still doesn't support all the hardware isdn4linux supports.

As long as those problems aren't solved, the old stuff cannot be removed.
Perhaps merging the current state of mISDN into the -mm tree would help
with this. Perhaps not.

Regards,
Tilman
(maintainer of an isdn4linux driver, waiting desperately for
documentation on how to convert to the new CAPI/mISDN world
but tired of asking for it in vain)

-- 
Tilman Schmidt                    E-Mail: tilman@...p.cc
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