Hi Chas,

On Tuesday 15 June 2004 15:05, chas williams (contractor) wrote:
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,Duncan Sands writes:
> >I noticed something called push_oam in the atm layer (always NULL
> >though).  Should my driver try to detect OAM cells and then call push_oam?
> 
> yes.  but you also need to implement the send_oam stub in your
> driver.  the patch has provide an interface similar to clip or lane
> that sends/recvs the oam cells to a userspace application.

why do drivers need to handle this at all?  Can't the ATM layer extract
incoming OAM cells without help from the driver?  And add OAM cells to
the stream of outgoing packets on a vc?

All the best,

Duncan.

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