On May 27, 2008, at 1:49 PM, Julian Elischer wrote: > 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'. Agreed. ucom(4) is in scope... -- Marcel Moolenaar xcllnt_at_mac.comReceived on Tue May 27 2008 - 19:04:28 UTC
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