Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 31 Dec 1998 10:51:49 +0100 | From | Paul Slootman <> | Subject | Re: 2.2.0 Bug summary (ISDN) |
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In article <Pine.LNX.3.95.981230103951.6194B-100000@penguin.transmeta.com> Linus wrote: >On Wed, 30 Dec 1998, Chris Wedgwood wrote: >> On Tue, Dec 29, 1998 at 02:04:26PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: >> >> > It's not going to happen for 2.2.0. >> >> 2.2.1? > >Yes, or whenever the ISDN people can get bothered to actually do something >about it. It's out of my hands.
Well, at the time of the preliminary code freeze (remember? that was back in July, with 2.1.109) you wrote:
> As of this release, I won't be looking at the "incoming" directory at the > linux-patches site any more. I'll only be looking at "urgent" things, on > the theory that I'm (a) lazy and (b) getting into code freeze.
At *that* time, the ISDN code was in a state of flux, and not really usable. It would have been silly to put the CVS code into 2.1 at that time (there was some heated discussion about this on the i4ldeveloper mailing list).
So, the decision was made *not* to send a patch of the ISDN stuff at the time, and as you had announced a code freeze, we didn't really expect that we would have any chance of getting the ISDN stuff in at a later point. Maybe you retracted the code freeze at some time; sorry, I don't have time to read *all* the stuff that goes over linux-kernel.
Now the code has been certified for a couple of cards (meaning you can actually legally use it in EU countries!), and mostly works fine (there are a couple of nits with MPPP and voice). At the least it's much better than the code in 2.2.0-pre.
Note that I'm speaking for myself here. The main ISDN developers are off having a vacation or something, which I understand they needed badly, having been working hard in Real Life. Anyway, IMO the CVS code is ready for prime time as I use it myself.
I'd be happy to take the CVS code and make a patch of it to send to the Master, if someone can tell me what the preferred format of such a patch is...
Paul Slootman -- home: paul@wurtel.demon.nl | work: paul@murphy.nl | debian: paul@debian.org http://www.wurtel.demon.nl | Murphy Software, Enschede, the Netherlands
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