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From: Dan Mahoney <dmahoney@isc.org>
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Subject: Comtrol Rocketport drivers?
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Hey all,

We use rocketports quite a bit around the office.  We've largely been 
replacing them with USB-based devices, but they're still functional and it 
seems a shame to throw working kit away.

I notice support for these rocketport boards stopped in 7.x.  Did the 
kernel just diverge too much, or was there some other reason support was 
dropped?  (i.e. closed-source driver, etc?).

If there's a better mailing list to ack on (-hackers?) please let me know.

Best,

-Dan Mahoney