Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 19:14:59 +0200 (CEST) From: Michael Reifenberger <mike@Reifenberger.com> To: Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky@c2i.net> Cc: freebsd-isdn@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New ISDN driver Message-ID: <20050816190537.E8652@fw.reifenberger.com> In-Reply-To: <200508161818.08934.hselasky@c2i.net> References: <20050814183738.C76FD114D2@bert.int.kts.org> <200508142145.59626.hselasky@c2i.net> <200508161818.08934.hselasky@c2i.net>
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On Tue, 16 Aug 2005, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
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>> Well, doesn't "i4l_" indicate that this came from "ISDN4LINUX" ?
>
> If you "cat" all the files in "/sys/i4b" and search for the word "linux" or
> "Linux" you will get some hits.
>
> So I suspect that some parts of the drivers in "/sys/i4b/layer1" are
> derivatives of Linux. And I have got some hints about that too. So maybe we
> should just drop support for some hardware, and stick with the chip-drivers I
> have written from scratch ? Else we might end up getting a bad rumor about
> stealing code from Linux.
>
The occurance of [Ll]inux or l_* doesnt imply that these files are from linux.
/sys/compat/linux/* files are stuffed with these letters.
Usually they are for compatibility reasons.
So its not reasonable to suspect any I4B files to be linux tainted.
Bye/2
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