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Subject: Re: Article on history of the BCSP driver
From:   Bastien Nocera <hadess@hadess.net>
To:     Fabrizio Gennari <fabrizio.ge@tiscalinet.it>,
        linux-bluetooth@vger.kernel.org
Date:   Tue, 25 Oct 2022 10:42:33 +0200
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On Tue, 2022-10-25 at 09:37 +0200, Fabrizio Gennari wrote:
> 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.

Seems to be archived properly on the Internet Archive. Not the easiest
to browse, but the data is there:
http://web.archive.org/web/20150904175519/https://sourceforge.net/p/bluez/mailman/bluez-users/

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