Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Building WAN card driver as monolythic (2nd round) | Date | Fri, 3 Dec 1999 22:49:06 +0000 (GMT) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> The problem is that this will raise another issue (which I've mentioned > before) ...
Argh I forgot that.
> Shouldn't pppdev.dev be a pointer to a 'struct device' structure?? How can > I solve this problem???
That is one solution. I've no objection to changing it to work that way
> I think this problem wasn't spotted before because all the other WAN card > drivers currently available are only "compileable" as modules.
Nod
> To make things worse, imagine the case where the driver supports several > different protocols (which actually is the case of my driver -- it > supports X.25 as well as PPP/Cisco HDLC). In this case, I would have to > declare the ppp_device structure anyway just to use the struct device > inside it, and this doesn't sound right to me. Do you agree??
Yes
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