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From:   Fabrizio Gennari <fabrizio.ge@tiscalinet.it>
Subject: Article on history of the BCSP driver
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Hello,

long, long time ago, I used to contribute to BlueZ: sent a few patches 
to the libraries, wrote a few man pages (e.g. hciconfig and hcitool), 
and wrote a kernel driver for the BCSP protocol used by CSR devices. In 
occasion of the 20th anniversary of the latter being merged into the 
kernel, I wrote an article about the driver and the context in which it 
was born (including the lab being shut down and its employees being laid 
off shortly after).

Writing it involved digging into the history of mailing lists and Web 
pages. The fact that the archives of the old bluez-users mailing list 
seem to be nowhere did not help.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/history-linux-kernel-driver-hcibcspc-fabrizio-gennari 
. Hope you enjoy reading it

Best regards,
Fabrizio