Re: Turning lucent winmodem into soundcard
H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
17 Sep 1999 10:04:30 GMT
Followup to: <19990916235202.A1257@bug.ucw.cz>
By author: Pavel Machek <pavel@bug.ucw.cz>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> 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 :-)]
>
This is indeed very cool :) Does it support handling the telephone
interface (hangup, ring detect, etc) as well? If so, it could be used
as an answering machine, if nothing else :)
-hpa
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