Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932662AbVIEJgs (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Sep 2005 05:36:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932665AbVIEJgs (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Sep 2005 05:36:48 -0400 Received: from baythorne.infradead.org ([81.187.2.161]:26561 "EHLO baythorne.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932662AbVIEJgq (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Sep 2005 05:36:46 -0400 Subject: Re: [ATMSAR] Request for review - update #1 From: David Woodhouse To: Alistair John Strachan Cc: Giampaolo Tomassoni , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-atm-general@lists.sourceforge.net In-Reply-To: <200509041720.55588.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> References: <200509041720.55588.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2005 10:36:36 +0100 Message-Id: <1125912996.6146.103.camel@baythorne.infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by baythorne.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 990 Lines: 25 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/