Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [ATMSAR] Request for review - update #1 | From | David Woodhouse <> | Date | Mon, 05 Sep 2005 10:36:36 +0100 |
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On Sun, 2005-09-04 at 17:20 +0100, Alistair John Strachan wrote: > Just out of curiosity, is there ANY reason why this has to be done in the > kernel? The PPPoATM module for pppd implements (via linux-atm) a completely > userspace ATM decoder.. if anything, now redundant ATM stack code should be > REMOVED from Linux!
No. The pppoatm module for pppd uses the kernel ATM stack and kernel PPPoATM functionality. I suspect you're thinking of the pseudo-tty hack used by the userspace code.
> Most distributions (to my knowledge) supporting the speedtouch modem do so > using the method prescribed on speedtouch.sf.net; an entirely userspace > procedure. pppd does all the ATM magic.
Fedora doesn't; it uses the kernel driver.
-- dwmw2
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