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SubjectRe: Synchronous board drivers
Alan Cox wrote:
: > I agree with Krzysztof that sync board driver should be as simple
: > as possible, and syncppp.c (or whatever it will be named) should do
: > everything else (registering net device, switching link protocols, etc).
:
: Why ?
:
: What if I want to do things differently. Right now I can re-educate syncppp.
: I can for example switch to hardware ppp and use software for X.25
:
Yes, I know that mid-layer approach is not flexible enough,
but I think we still want to move more work (e.g. registering the device name
and maybe the character device emulation) to syncppp.c.

-Yenya

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