From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Alistair John Strachan <s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk>
Cc: Giampaolo Tomassoni <g.tomassoni@libero.it>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-atm-general@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [ATMSAR] Request for review - update #1
Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2005 10:36:36 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1125912996.6146.103.camel@baythorne.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200509041720.55588.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-05 9:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-04 11:05 Giampaolo Tomassoni
2005-09-04 12:00 ` [Linux-ATM-General] " Francois Romieu
2005-09-04 13:13 ` R: " Giampaolo Tomassoni
2005-09-04 15:32 ` Francois Romieu
2005-09-04 18:44 ` R: " Giampaolo Tomassoni
2005-09-04 19:11 ` matthieu castet
2005-09-04 19:33 ` R: " Giampaolo Tomassoni
2005-09-04 19:42 ` Giampaolo Tomassoni
2005-09-05 6:05 ` Zoran Stojsavljevic
2005-09-05 6:21 ` R: " Giampaolo Tomassoni
2005-09-04 16:20 ` Alistair John Strachan
2005-09-04 16:41 ` Grzegorz Kulewski
2005-09-04 16:54 ` Alistair John Strachan
2005-09-04 17:22 ` Grzegorz Kulewski
2005-09-05 15:04 ` Duncan Sands
2005-09-04 18:36 ` R: " Giampaolo Tomassoni
2005-09-04 18:51 ` Alistair John Strachan
2005-09-05 9:36 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2005-09-05 13:52 ` Alistair John Strachan
2005-09-05 13:56 ` David Woodhouse
2005-09-05 14:18 ` Alistair John Strachan
2005-09-05 14:32 ` David Woodhouse
2005-09-05 14:46 ` Duncan Sands
2005-09-04 16:55 ` Jiri Slaby
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