In message <483BBC1B.6040905_at_elischer.org>, Julian Elischer writes: >However the line discipline was a very convenient place for netgraph >to hook in without leaving the kernel. If you can supply an equally >effective way to hook into a serial device in such a way that it >appears to be a source/sink of bits then I don't care about >line disciplins, but until you have a suggested replacement then leave >them alone. There are MANY people using mpd with the netgraph ppp >moduel hooked directly to the serial port via the netgraph line >discipline. What exact value of "MANY" are we talking about here, and do you have any evidence that the systems in question will be updated to FreeBSD-8.0-RELEASE or later ? If, contrary to my expectation, that you can show a real market here, then we should make a better interface than linedisc for such hooks into serial ports. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk_at_FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.Received on Tue May 27 2008 - 06:04:02 UTC
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