Re: Plans for mISDN?

Tilman Schmidt
2008-02-20T18:23:58Z

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Am 20.02.2008 17:54 schrieb Andi Kleen:
>> 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)
>
> Most subsystems in the kernel would disqualify under that rule

I beg to differ. Most subsystems do have at least rudimentary
documentation. (I'm spoiled by the USB subsystem, of course. :-)

> Did you ever look for full documentation on how to write Ethernet
> drivers for example? Some bits are documented, but far from all

I am not asking for "full documentation". "Some bits" would amply
suffice. Documentation/isdn/INTERFACE, the interface description
for the "old" isdn4linux subsystem, is far from complete, either.
But it contains enough hints so that I knew where to start.

>> (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)
>
> My advice is that you just read the source of some existing drivers
> for examples and copy them and of the subsystem itself if anything is
> unclear. That is how Linux drivers are usually written.

Usually, yes. But I find it unusually hard in this particular case.
In fact I have been trying to do that for two years now, without
getting anywhere. Reading code without a hint of what the authors
are trying to do is terribly time-consuming, to put it mildly.

Thanks,
T.

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