>>>>> "Suresh" == Suresh Ramasubramanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Suresh> See, I know this (saw this for myself when I forgot to
Suresh> update ppp on a slak box I was trying to move to 2.4.x).
Suresh> I'm not all that much of a coder, so dont know the
Suresh> specific reason for this requirement. Maybe (as someone
Suresh> else said) the kernel code re ppp has changed, so user
Suresh> space ppp code (pppd) has to change as well.
More often than not, newer kernel implements newer functionality,
eliminates obsolete stuff (system calls are updated, ioctls are
added/removed, fields in kernel data structures are updated) fixes
bugs and so on. So, user level code that depends on specific kernel
functionality (maybe the older version of pppd required an ioctl in
the ppp driver that was replaced by a different one in 2.4 series)
need also be updated. Thus, user level pppd need to be updated along
with the kernel ppp driver.
Binand
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