Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 4 Jul 1999 20:24:22 +0200 | From | Jan Kasprzak <> | Subject | Re: Synchronous board drivers |
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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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