Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 4 Jul 1999 18:45:36 +0200 | From | Jan Kasprzak <> | Subject | Re: Frame Relay generic driver |
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Gergely Madarasz wrote: : > I think it is possible even without a rewrite of syncppp.c. The : > slaves should be generated on the fly using some ioctl (which gets : > a PVC #, and returns the slave name, for example). And of course some : > ioctl for deleting the slave, and one for seting a link-protocol : > (maybe we should delete SPPPIOCCISCO and SPPPIOCPPP and make one : > ioctl with a parameter for setting the link-level protocol). : : Something like that should be ok. Btw I'll soon be submitting the comx : drivers to the kernel, they need no ioctl's at all, everything is set up : thru the /proc filesystem (echo ppp >/proc/comx/comx0/protocol), i quite : like this idea (it wasn't written by me, but the previus maintainer). : Is commx tied to syncppp.c somewhat? Or it is another implementation of syncppp/cisco/FR? I would like to see the code.
BTW, the idea of using /proc is neat, but think about dedicated routers witout any /proc. I one time thought about the following:
cat /etc/cosa/cs8.hex >/proc/cosa/cosa0/firmware echo start 0x400 >/proc/cosa/cosa0/command
But I did not implement this because there can be small routers without /proc.
: I'd be glad to help. The comx drivers frame-relay code (which I : maintain, and support since february, I haven't done much with it : though) needs a bit of redesign, since it is tied to the hardware drivers : much more than it needs to be.
You are welcome. I think we should do some design issues and then start coding or adapting the existing software.
-Yenya
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