Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750977AbXAOR3Q (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Jan 2007 12:29:16 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751051AbXAOR3Q (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Jan 2007 12:29:16 -0500 Received: from ns2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:35143 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750977AbXAOR3P (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Jan 2007 12:29:15 -0500 Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 18:29:12 +0100 From: Karsten Keil To: "Robert P. J. Day" Cc: Tilman Schmidt , Linux kernel mailing list , kkeil@suse.de Subject: Re: any value to fixing apparent bugs in old ISDN4Linux? Message-ID: <20070115172912.GA3323@pingi.kke.suse.de> Mail-Followup-To: "Robert P. J. Day" , Tilman Schmidt , Linux kernel mailing list , kkeil@suse.de References: <45ABB53C.5030100@imap.cc> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Organization: SuSE Linux AG X-Operating-System: Linux 2.6.16.21-0.23-smp x86_64 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1203 Lines: 31 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/