Bug#427812: Please include Sangoma patches

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 04:37:03PM +0100, B Thompson wrote:
> Package: zaptel-source
> 
> Version: 1.2.11.dfsg-1
> 
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> Please could you include the patches needed to allow the Sangoma
> Wanpipe drivers to interoperate with Zaptel. We chose Sangoma
> interface cards because they are cheaper than Diguim and they are
> available in low profile PCI-Express options, which Digium do not
> offer. However they do require that extra modules are installed and
> there is a shell script provided by Sangoma which attempts to patch
> and reinstall the zaptel modules. The script is tries to help debian
> users by providing an option to build a deb package for the Wanpipe drivers.
> 
> This does not play nicely with the module-assistant way of doing
> things and it would be so much easier for Debian users if the patches
> where already included.

There are two parts for this:

The Sangoma driver includes a little patch for Zaptel. An old version of
it is included in Zaptel, but not applied. I'm not exactly sure if it
needs to be applied: this needs some further review (and the patch needs
updating).

Then there's the matter of building the actual drivers. Not a small
feat. There used to be a wanpipe package in Debian (it was in potato -
2.2, but abandoned later). Those drivers have a crazy build system (e.g:
it insists on patching the kernel sources).

If someone with the hardware would like to work with me on such a package, 
I'm willing to help. Maybe even on integrating this within Zaptel.
But I really cannot promise something that will actually work.

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