Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/9] isdn4linux: add drivers for Siemens Gigaset ISDN
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From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
Cc: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>, Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>,
       Hansjoerg Lipp <hjlipp@web.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 18:04:19 +0100
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On Mon, 2005-12-19 at 12:01 -0500, Lee Revell wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-12-19 at 17:38 +0100, Tilman Schmidt wrote:
> > Unfortunately these don't fit our needs, as we are not dealing with a
> > network device, but with an ISDN device.
> 
> Um, isn't that what the N in ISDN stands for?
> 
> I guess what you mean is that although ISDN devices are obviously
> networking devices, the kernel uses a separate subsystem for 

that's not obvious. They're telephony like devices. they do voice and
data. They're not ethernet or even remotely like that. You can do ppp
over it tho... 


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