Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > On May 27, 2008, at 1:12 AM, Julian Elischer wrote: > >> judging by the bug reports when things get broken there are still a >> lot of people connected to the internet via dial up lines in places >> off the beaten track, and still a lot of people who when travelling >> do use dialup still. Some of these also use mpd. I can not say how >> many plan to keep using this in the future but it may be that the >> simplest answer is a completely separate sio driver that >> just has netgraph hooks. I haven't talked with Ed yet but there >> may be may ways to solve this problem. > > Take a look at uart(4). It has been designed to allow different > kernel interfaces. It currently supports TTYs and keyboards. It > should not be too hard to have it hook into netgraph. > > FYI, > While this is a good idea on it's own, the difference between what that achieves and what a line discipline achieves is that a line disciplin is hardware independent and can even be used on a virtual device.Received on Tue May 27 2008 - 15:50:14 UTC
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