From owner-freebsd-isdn@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 16 18:14:32 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-isdn@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-isdn@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65DC916A41F for ; Tue, 16 Aug 2005 18:14:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from garyj@jennejohn.org) Received: from peedub.jennejohn.org (Jb873.j.pppool.de [85.74.184.115]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD9EF43D45 for ; Tue, 16 Aug 2005 18:14:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from garyj@jennejohn.org) Received: from jennejohn.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by peedub.jennejohn.org (8.13.4/8.11.6) with ESMTP id j7GIESTv010770; Tue, 16 Aug 2005 20:14:28 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from garyj@jennejohn.org) Message-Id: <200508161814.j7GIESTv010770@peedub.jennejohn.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.2 01/07/2005 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Michael Reifenberger In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 16 Aug 2005 19:14:59 +0200." <20050816190537.E8652@fw.reifenberger.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 20:14:28 +0200 From: Gary Jennejohn Cc: freebsd-isdn@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New ISDN driver X-BeenThere: freebsd-isdn@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Gary Jennejohn List-Id: Using ISDN with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 18:14:32 -0000 Michael Reifenberger writes: > On Tue, 16 Aug 2005, Hans Petter Selasky wrote: > ... > >> 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. > Several drivers were developed after examining the Linux code, which in these cases was the only form of documentation available. AVM in particular is very bad about providing documentation to any developer outside the Linux world! Been there, done that. These drivers (some of which I wrote) are NOT clones of the Linux drivers, so don't try to imply that they are, HPS. --- Gary Jennejohn / garyjATjennejohnDOTorg gjATfreebsdDOTorg garyjATdenxDOTde