... .c, b) apply my patch > > with new PPP, c) blindly port ... broken tag from drivers/net/wan/Kconfig Signed-off-by: David ... diff --git a/drivers/net/wan/cosa.c b/drivers/net ... can cause a subsequent detach for raw frame interface */ + dev->ml_priv ...

linux-kernel - David Miller - May 12 2008 - 06:32

... an inappropriate time for all that new code, which has been ... So quite honestly a CONFIG_BROKEN patch might indeed be more > appropriate ... pm.waw.pl> --- a/drivers/net/wan/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/net ... It will be replaced by new PPP implementation in Linux 2 ...

linux-kernel - Krzysztof Halasa - Mar 25 2008 - 11:50

... to resend. It was 6000 patches ago and my mind is ... It will be replaced by new PPP implementation after Linux 2 ... is released. This affects only PPP support in generic HDLC (mostly ... Generic HDLC driver supporting PPP over WAN connections. + This module is ...

linux-kernel - Krzysztof Halasa - Apr 12 2008 - 04:10

... an inappropriate time for all that new code, which has been ... do we know that your new code doesn't have equally ... So quite honestly a CONFIG_BROKEN patch might indeed be more appropriate ... good chance to make HDLC+PPP work again. Jeff -- To unsubscribe ...

linux-kernel - Jeff Garzik - Mar 25 2008 - 10:55

... tristate "Synchronous Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) support" > - depends on HDLC > + depends on ... > Generic HDLC driver supporting PPP over WAN connections. > + This module is currently ... + It will be replaced by new PPP implementation in Linux 2.6 ...

linux-kernel - Jeff Garzik - Apr 12 2008 - 04:50

... >> It will be replaced by new PPP implementation after Linux 2.6 ... that caused the breakage then re-merge that and fixes for > HDLC PPP ... field to sk_buff, namely queue_mapping, for drivers to know which tx_ring ... 2.6.25-rc5 and the new code wasn't much tested) ...

linux-kernel - Krzysztof Halasa - Apr 12 2008 - 16:19

... yourself: - my patch didn't give us a third PPP implementation ... to dev->priv and netdev_priv() for those drivers. The real problem ... be a real PITA, - the code is really hard to parse ... then "compiled" into C machine code :-) - the lack of hardware makes ...

linux-kernel - Krzysztof Halasa - Apr 21 2008 - 11:30

... extensions to syncppp to > provide for HDLC's needs, rather than ... protocols - Cisco HDLC and (sync) PPP intermixed together. What would be ... .c, b) apply my patch with new PPP, c) blindly port ... used only by the original FreeBSD code in 1994). If the ...

linux-kernel - Krzysztof Halasa - Apr 24 2008 - 16:46

Hi, I wrote: > New synchronous PPP implementation for generic HDLC. So are ... perhaps a "|| BROKEN" in drivers/net/wan/Kconfig would make sense? Any attempt ... I can make that trivial Kconfig patch of course. -- Krzysztof Halasa -- To unsubscribe ...

linux-kernel - Krzysztof Halasa - Mar 25 2008 - 10:39

... HDLC would mean more >> code than PPP implementation required for fixed lines. >> ... > I would like to have a single PPP implementation, > but what Krzysztof writes about compatibility and complexity > (both in coding and user configuration) is a real ...

linux-kernel - Jeff Garzik - Apr 22 2008 - 16:50

... to generic HDLC would mean more > code than PPP implementation required for fixed lines. > ... I would like to have a single PPP implementation, but what Krzysztof writes about compatibility and complexity (both in coding and user configuration) is a real ...

linux-kernel - Paul Fulghum - Apr 22 2008 - 17:46

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linux-kernel - James Chapman - Apr 22 2008 - 18:23

Krzysztof Halasa wrote: > New synchronous PPP implementation for generic HDLC. > > Signed-off- ... > > drivers/net/wan/Makefile | 2 +- > drivers/net/ ... d61fef3..3081683 100644 > --- a/drivers/net/wan/Makefile > +++ b/drivers/net/ ...

linux-kernel - Jeff Garzik - Apr 12 2008 - 05:12

... Linux may simply not be > for them, well that's fine ... suggestion of merging generic HDLC PPP with the pppd implementation. It' ... choose to use generic HDLC PPP are *dead* >> set against the ... etc. Even when provided with new tools and scripts that do ...

linux-kernel - Paul Fulghum - Apr 22 2008 - 19:52

... to optionally allocate additional memory for internal use by the driver. ... used netdev_priv() (unlike non-HDLC PPP cases) as a means of ... and porting PC300 T1/E1 code to pc300too. If some driver ... support here. The same goes for syncppp - if/when the number ...

linux-kernel - Krzysztof Halasa - Apr 23 2008 - 13:02

... usual. Generic HDLC uses dev->priv for itself but the relevant hw drivers ... is removed we can use dev->ml_priv for HDLC layer, dev->priv for ... sppp *sppp_of(struct net_device *dev) > { > - struct ppp_device **ppp = dev->priv; > + struct ppp_device ** ...

linux-kernel - Krzysztof Halasa - May 14 2008 - 12:17

... . And even if Linux may simply not be for them, well that's fine too, and implementing ... here. Are we going to have three copies of code implementing the same thing because some HDLC PPP users threatened to defect? That's simply rediculious. -- To ...

linux-kernel - David Miller - Apr 22 2008 - 18:02

... the generic-HDLC+PPP in broken state for 2.6.25, ... a "|| BROKEN" in drivers/net/wan/Kconfig would make > sense? Linus ... will have broken drivers/net/wan/hdlc_ppp, any chance to apply ... temporary Kconfig ("depends on BROKEN") patch? Would you like me to ...

linux-kernel - Krzysztof Halasa - Apr 11 2008 - 17:35

... the generic-HDLC+PPP in broken state for 2.6.25, ... a "|| BROKEN" in drivers/net/wan/Kconfig would make > > sense? > > Linus ... temporary > Kconfig ("depends on BROKEN") patch? > > Would you like me to ... to resend. It was 6000 patches ago and my mind is ...

linux-kernel - Andrew Morton - Apr 12 2008 - 01:14

... hurts to resend. It was 6000 patches ago and my mind is a ... here is it. Some description, well: > > PPP support in generic HDLC in ... > It will be replaced by new PPP implementation after Linux 2.6 ... caused the breakage then re-merge that and fixes for HDLC ...

linux-kernel - Alan Cox - Apr 12 2008 - 06:59