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Michał Sutkowski <michal@sutkowski.z.pl> wrote:

: Ostatnio w 'linux-sprzęt' popularny był wątek winmodemów. Nie rozwinął się
: zbytnio, bo kręcił się wokół tego, że "pod Linuxem takie modemy po prostu
: nie działają i już". Nasuwa się pytanie: dlaczego?

Nieco nie na temat, ale...:

> Date:   Thu, 16 Sep 1999 23:52:02 +0200                            
> From: Pavel Machek <pavel@bug.ucw.cz>     
> To: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu         
> Subject: Turning lucent winmodem into soundcard        
> 
> Hi!                                                                             
> 
> I've driver which essentially turns lucents winmodem into                       
> soundcard. So - hardware interface was guessed and "only" remaining             
> part is doing v34 in software.                                                  
> 
> See discuss@linmodems.org archives for details.                                 
> 
> Now, question is where should it go. That winmodem uses interrupts so           
> little that it can be nicely done using polling+userspace with zero             
> performance lost. Still it is device driver. Should it go into kernel?          
> [Well, drivers/sound/modem would be cool :-)]                                
> 
> Then, there's v34 stack. It is not written yet, but it will eventually
> get written. It needs sort of realtime guarantees. Should it go into            
> kernel?                                                                     

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