Adrian, thank you very much for taking the time to comment. On 14.02.2006 15:00, you wrote: > - Do we really want to add new non-CAPI drivers to the kernel? I have been in contact with the isdn4linux maintainer Karsten Keil on that topic for quite some time and he didn't voice any objections to submitting the driver in its current state. Personally I am a great fan of CAPI, and of course we'll be happy to port the driver to CAPI as soon as the capi4linux / mISDN framework is ready for such an endeavour. This may however take some time yet, if I understand Karsten correctly. In particular, we are talking here about the mISDN L3 interface which seems to be the most appropriate for this purpose, but has not been documented so far. In the meantime, I take it from the discussions on lkml that it is strongly discouraged to maintain working drivers outside the kernel tree, which is what prompted us to submit ours in the first place. Therefore I think it's in the best interest of everybody to merge its current isnd4linux gestalt now, and convert it to CAPI at the earliest convenience. > - A new driver that can only be built modular is not acceptable. No problem. In fact, the submitted drivers work fine if linked directly into the kernel, too. The dependency on modular build in gigaset/Kconfig only exists for the benefit of the ser_gigaset driver which we didn't submit anyway. (See part 0 for the reasons.) We left it in because tests have been done almost exclusively with modular builds; but if that turns out to be a problem we'll just remove it. Regards Tilman -- Tilman Schmidt E-Mail: [email protected] Bonn, Germany Diese Nachricht besteht zu 100% aus wiederverwerteten Bits. Ungeöffnet mindestens haltbar bis: (siehe Rückseite)
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