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

Armin Schindler
2008-02-19T11:11:53Z

On Tue, 19 Feb 2008, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 10:56:22AM +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
>>>
>>>> If noone in the isdn community step up and take some responsibility
>>>> for the current isdn drivers in Linux then we should just delete them.
>>>
>>> So you're saying anything that has no active maintainer should
>>> be immediately deleted?
>>
>> You do not recognize a provocation when you see it?
>> I wanted a reaction from the isdn community - and I got so.
>> So lets look forward.
>
> Well it was more a lie because you couldn't possibly make up to your
> threat anyways.
>
> I'm not sure either it's a good idea to try to merge mISDN if the
> maintainers don't think it is ready yet.

Without having any opinion here or understanding what the problem is, I just
want to remind everyone that ISDN in the linux kernel (isdn4linux) is not
just mISDN.
There are drivers for common devices/interfaces, the CAPI interface and of
course hardware drivers for other ISDN cards like the active ones as well.

Armin