Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > > On May 27, 2008, at 10:50 AM, Julian Elischer wrote: > >> 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. > > True, but you said: > "... the simplest answer is a completely separate sio driver...". > > This, besides not being true, is just as hardware dependent as > uart(4) is. It seems to me that you've conveniently changed the > subject to match your point of view :-) yep :-) we need to decide if the aim is to support just serial ports or any 'tty'.Received on Tue May 27 2008 - 18:49:14 UTC
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