On Monday 05 September 2005 10:36, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Sun, 2005-09-04 at 17:20 +0100, Alistair John Strachan wrote: > > Just out of curiosity, is there ANY reason why this has to be done in the > > kernel? The PPPoATM module for pppd implements (via linux-atm) a > > completely userspace ATM decoder.. if anything, now redundant ATM stack > > code should be REMOVED from Linux! > > No. The pppoatm module for pppd uses the kernel ATM stack and kernel > PPPoATM functionality. I suspect you're thinking of the pseudo-tty hack > used by the userspace code.
I'm not sure which module you're referring to, but the patch recommended by the speedtouch people links to linux-atm, and does not require kernel ATM or kernel pppoatm functionality, or use any kernel modules. I do notice it does a system ("/sbin/modprobe pppoatm"); but this is definitely not required; I'm speaking to you from a speedtouch DSL connection, no module loaded or compiled in, no ATM support in the kernel. http://devzero.co.uk/~alistair/linuxmisc/ppp-2.4.3-atm.diff > > > Most distributions (to my knowledge) supporting the speedtouch modem do > > so using the method prescribed on speedtouch.sf.net; an entirely > > userspace procedure. pppd does all the ATM magic. > > Fedora doesn't; it uses the kernel driver. I stand corrected. -- Cheers, Alistair. 'No sense being pessimistic, it probably wouldn't work anyway.' Third year Computer Science undergraduate. 1F2 55 South Clerk Street, Edinburgh, UK. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/