Re: [PATCH] Generic HDLC patch for 2.5.3

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Sat Feb 02 2002 - 19:46:28 EST


> It adds undiscussed networking changed which I very much doubt DaveM
> would approve of, and I do not approve of: SIOCDEVICE is far too
> generic for inclusion, and it adds a structure for passing untyped
> data which is very definitely non-portable.

You need a very generic structure for WAN interfaces because they have
ridiculously large numbers of configurable options. These changes were
discussed over a year ago.

I agree with the comment about untyped data. That does want to be cleaned
up a chunk more.
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