Re: ISDN-Question

[Theo de Raadt <deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org>]

> Today I talked with an developer of MirBSD and he told me that MirBSD send
> a patch/port for ISDN to OpenBSD but it wasn't included.

We were not interested in the tree damage.  ISDN is not important for
how much splatter it does to the source tree.

> So could somebody told me WHY oBSD reject this patch/port for ISDN?!

Because we did not want it.

> And please come down guys: Don't make a flamewar..

Hey, don't you try to make it into a flamewar..

> I'm just interested why this patch never included into openBSD and why
> openBSD can't handle ISDN. I think ISDN was included into 2.6 (or?) so why
> isn't it in 3.4?

Because we did not want it.

> I know that this topic is a littlebit difficuolt but I only wanna know the
> technical answer why ISDN isn't a part of oBSD and NO personal stuff like
> (MirBSD isn't/is blbla". :)

Because we did not want ISDN in the source tree, because it splattered
stuff all over the place, and just really was not that pretty.