Re: [ATMSAR] Request for review - update #1

[David Woodhouse]

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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