Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/6] drivers: isdn: act2000: capi.c: fix checkpatch errors | From | Paul Bolle <> | Date | Sat, 07 Feb 2015 21:43:20 +0100 |
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[Adding Tilman.]
On Sat, 2015-02-07 at 11:19 -0800, Joe Perches wrote: > Does anyone still use these cards?
0) Good question.
1) None of the (two dozen) commits in drivers/isdn/act2000/ added since v2.6.12 appear to be triggered complaints, suggestions, etc. of actual users.
2) Broader picture: if I remember correctly there are now four different flavors of ISDN in the kernel: - really old: pre-i4l - very old: i4l - just old: CAPI - not so old: mISDN
I could spend another 24 hours refining and relabeling these categories, and matching the various drivers to these categories. But I'm pretty sure none of the current categories contain all the drivers. And I'm certain all current categories support one or more drivers that none of the other categories do. So the current ISDN situation is a bit messy.
Tilman might be able to provide a clearer, and maybe less grumpy, summary of the current situation.
3) Anyhow, this is an i4l card. i4l is deprecated since v2.6.22. And it was obsolete before that!
4) Furthermore, it seems consumer grade ISDN is on the way out. Eg, my ISP will disconnect my, let's call it, ADSL over ISDN connection in less that two months because they can't be bothered anymore to support that niche.
5) So we could let the various flavors of ISDN limp along for another few years. But maybe we should consider, say, removing i4l and pre i4l and see who complains. That might be a rude thing to do. So perhaps the various ISDN flavors should be left alone until ... what exactly?
Paul Bolle
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