Re: any value to fixing apparent bugs in old ISDN4Linux?

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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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