Re: [PATCH net-next] net: x25_asy: Delete the x25_asy driver

From: Xie He
Date: Fri Nov 06 2020 - 06:25:36 EST


On Fri, Nov 6, 2020 at 1:03 AM David Laight <David.Laight@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hmmm.... LAPB would expect to have an X.25 level 3 and maybe ISO
> transport (class 0, 2 or 3) sat on top of it.

I actually used AF_PACKET sockets to transport data directly over LAPB
and it worked.

LAPB doesn't need anything from layer 3. It just sees the layer 3
packets as a sequence of packets, numbers them and reliably transports
them in order. It doesn't read the internal contents of the packets.