Date: Wed, 9 Dec 1998 23:56:03 +0100 (MET) From: Sascha Schumann <sas@schell.de> To: Martin Husemann <martin@rumolt.teuto.de> Cc: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Markus_D=F6hr?= <doehrm@aubi.de>, hm@hcs.de, freebsd-isdn@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Support for ITK? (Comment) Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.05.9812092347100.19792-100000@guerilla.foo.bar> In-Reply-To: <199812092126.WAA04760@rumolt.teuto.de>
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On Wed, 9 Dec 1998, Martin Husemann wrote:
> > IMHO I think, that writing a driver for this card cannot be so difficult,
> > because the source for the driver is available on Linux and can IMHO be
> > adapted to *BSD,
>
> Writing any driver for any card is "not so difficult". There are even cards
> with good documentation waiting for someone to finish a driver (my daic driver
> for old active Diehl/Eicon cards is a good example).
>
> There is no benefit per se to support any card. We are not fighting a battle
> against I4L to support more cards then they do - we would have lost that
> battle from the start. And we don't even fight a battle "our drivers are
> better written than your's are" - although at least to me this is a quite
> apealing challenge (and we would have won that from the start!).
Can you exaggerate on your last sentence? I see I4L as a feature rich,
stable and mature implementation of something which is used by many
people. There is no point in saying ``We are the best, so we didn't bother
to compete at first''.
The closed development of i4b is something I never understood - the last
public version is about 5 months old.
> So this one is easy: send one card to me, one to Hellmuth (or any other I4B
> developer voluntering) and promise not to urge us. Maybe you could even ask
> ITK for official docs. And maybe you will get a working driver back - and
> maybe only your cards and no driver.
>
> Yoy see, everyone I know able to write such a driver has *a lot of* various
> working and supported cards around - why should he even consider looking at
> the I4L driver? How should he then start testing a driver?
Yes, it would be much easier to switch to I4L in such a case. :-P
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