Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 15 Feb 2006 23:10:46 +0100 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.16-rc3-mm1: ISDN_DRV_GIGASET driver |
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On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 02:57:01AM +0100, Tilman Schmidt wrote:
> Adrian,
Hi Tilman,
> thank you very much for taking the time to comment. > > On 14.02.2006 15:00, you wrote: > > - Do we really want to add new non-CAPI drivers to the kernel? > > I have been in contact with the isdn4linux maintainer Karsten Keil on > that topic for quite some time and he didn't voice any objections to > submitting the driver in its current state. > > Personally I am a great fan of CAPI, and of course we'll be happy to > port the driver to CAPI as soon as the capi4linux / mISDN framework is > ready for such an endeavour. This may however take some time yet, if I > understand Karsten correctly. In particular, we are talking here about > the mISDN L3 interface which seems to be the most appropriate for this > purpose, but has not been documented so far. > > In the meantime, I take it from the discussions on lkml that it is > strongly discouraged to maintain working drivers outside the kernel > tree, which is what prompted us to submit ours in the first place. > Therefore I think it's in the best interest of everybody to merge its > current isnd4linux gestalt now, and convert it to CAPI at the earliest > convenience.
OK.
> > - A new driver that can only be built modular is not acceptable. > > No problem. In fact, the submitted drivers work fine if linked directly > into the kernel, too. The dependency on modular build in gigaset/Kconfig > only exists for the benefit of the ser_gigaset driver which we didn't > submit anyway. (See part 0 for the reasons.) We left it in because tests > have been done almost exclusively with modular builds; but if that turns > out to be a problem we'll just remove it.
All drivers in the kernel should work built statically into the kernel, and I don't see an obvious reason why your driver should work worse when being compiled statically into the kernel.
> Regards > Tilman
cu Adrian
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