> Alan Cox wrote:
> : > I agree with Krzysztof that sync board driver should be as simple
> : > as possible, and syncppp.c (or whatever it will be named) should do
> : > everything else (registering net device, switching link protocols, etc).
> :
> : Why ?
> :
> : What if I want to do things differently. Right now I can re-educate syncppp.
> : I can for example switch to hardware ppp and use software for X.25
> :
> Yes, I know that mid-layer approach is not flexible enough,
> but I think we still want to move more work (e.g. registering the device name
> and maybe the character device emulation) to syncppp.c.
Why is the character device emulation needed at all ?
Greg
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