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SubjectRe: Please!! Help me to help us to use WinModems in Linux
blah@kvack.org (Benjamin C.R. LaHaise)  wrote on 09.04.99 in <Pine.LNX.3.95.990409210324.26002B-100000@as200.spellcast.com>:

> On Fri, 9 Apr 1999, Albert D. Cahalan wrote:
>
> > The kernel already has code to handle AT commands, as part of the
> > modem emulation included with the ISDN drivers. You can share it,
> > to avoid bloat and bugs. (there were buffer overflows at one time)
>
> Yeap, and this is an example of code that should be removed from the
> kernel and put into a daemon (yes I'm volunteering, just as soon as I have
> the time to do it).

To what possible benefit?

We're talking of about 1/3 of drivers/isdn/isdn_tty.c here. That's not a
lot of code. And it's pretty hard to do this *outside* of the tty handling
routines.

Oh, and AT&W/ATZ (save and restore settings) already *does* use a user
land demon.

MfG Kai

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