In message <20050222220801.54EAE3BFE65@berkshire.machshav.com>,
"Steven M. Bellovin" writes:


>Apart from the other reasons given, one of the mechanisms for 
>supporting certain winmodems (and in particular the Thinkpad winmodems) 
>uses a (huge) patch to the alsa driver.

We seem to be agreeing on a userland API shim (and maybe kernel
changes to support it?). But that won't help with the thinkpad ltmodem
thingy.

(I thought there was a hunk of binary-only code required for
the ltmodem, too.  Am I mistaken?)