Re: [PATCH 5/5] isdn: move capi drivers to staging

2019-04-29 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Mon, Apr 29, 2019 at 11:59 AM Thomas Jarosch wrote: > You wrote on Thu, Apr 25, 2019 at 01:24:09PM +0200: > > I'm still confused by this: You say here that you use the CAPI > > subsystem from the mainline kernel (i.e. /dev/capi20 rather > > than mISDNcapid), but this does not appear to interact

Re: [PATCH 5/5] isdn: move capi drivers to staging

2019-04-29 Thread Thomas Jarosch
Hi Arnd, You wrote on Thu, Apr 25, 2019 at 01:24:09PM +0200: > > > Right, this is what I'm trying to find out here. I realize that there > > > are (very few) remaining users of ISDN voice services, but this only > > > matters if someone uses them > > > > > > 1. with a modern Linux kernel, and plan

Re: [PATCH 5/5] isdn: move capi drivers to staging

2019-04-25 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 3:06 PM Thomas Jarosch wrote: > > Hi Arnd, > > > Ok, interesting. My understanding was that mISDN CAPI support > > was done purely in user space, on top of the mISDN interface. > > > > I don't see any interfaction between the two in the kernel code, > > but if the capi modu

Re: [PATCH 5/5] isdn: move capi drivers to staging

2019-04-24 Thread Thomas Jarosch
Hi Arnd, > Ok, interesting. My understanding was that mISDN CAPI support > was done purely in user space, on top of the mISDN interface. > > I don't see any interfaction between the two in the kernel code, > but if the capi module is required for mISDN, we clearly have to > keep it. We could still

Re: [PATCH 5/5] isdn: move capi drivers to staging

2019-04-24 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 11:24 AM Thomas Jarosch wrote: > You wrote on Tue, Apr 23, 2019 at 05:11:43PM +0200: > > I tried to find any indication of whether the capi drivers are > > still in use, and have not found anything from a long time ago. > > > > With public ISDN networks almost completely s

Re: [PATCH 5/5] isdn: move capi drivers to staging

2019-04-24 Thread Thomas Jarosch
Hello Arnd, You wrote on Tue, Apr 23, 2019 at 05:11:43PM +0200: > I tried to find any indication of whether the capi drivers are > still in use, and have not found anything from a long time ago. > > With public ISDN networks almost completely shut down over the past 12 > months, there is very li

[PATCH 5/5] isdn: move capi drivers to staging

2019-04-23 Thread Arnd Bergmann
I tried to find any indication of whether the capi drivers are still in use, and have not found anything from a long time ago. With public ISDN networks almost completely shut down over the past 12 months, there is very little you can actually do with this hardware. The main remaining use case wo

[PATCH 5/5] isdn: move capi drivers to staging

2019-04-23 Thread Arnd Bergmann
I tried to find any indication of whether the capi drivers are still in use, and have not found anything from a long time ago. With public ISDN networks almost completely shut down over the past 12 months, there is very little you can actually do with this hardware. The main remaining use case wo