From: Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de>
To: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Cc: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>,
Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
kkeil@suse.de
Subject: Re: any value to fixing apparent bugs in old ISDN4Linux?
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 18:29:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070115172912.GA3323@pingi.kke.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0701151216310.7260@CPE00045a9c397f-CM001225dbafb6>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-01-15 17:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-01-15 11:43 Robert P. J. Day
2007-01-15 13:57 ` Karsten Keil
2007-01-15 17:09 ` Tilman Schmidt
2007-01-15 17:17 ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-01-15 17:29 ` Karsten Keil [this message]
2007-02-21 0:29 ` [PATCH] Remove "obsolete" label from ISDN4Linux (was: any value to fixing apparent bugs in old ISDN4Linux?) Tilman Schmidt
2007-03-28 22:18 ` [Repost][PATCH] Remove "obsolete" label from ISDN4Linux Tilman Schmidt
2007-04-21 13:07 ` [PATCH] Remove "obsolete" label from ISDN4Linux (v3) Tilman Schmidt
2007-04-21 20:58 ` Alan Cox
2007-04-21 22:10 ` David Miller
2007-04-22 12:27 ` Tilman Schmidt
2007-04-22 12:58 ` Alan Cox
2007-04-22 14:29 ` Tilman Schmidt
2007-04-22 15:17 ` Alan Cox
2007-04-22 15:48 ` Satyam Sharma
2007-04-22 16:20 ` Alan Cox
2007-04-23 23:58 ` Tilman Schmidt
2007-05-28 16:32 ` [PATCH] ISDN4Linux: fix maturity label (v4) Tilman Schmidt
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