Re: [PATCH net-next v2 5/6] net/lapb: support netdev events

Martin Schiller
2020-11-18T13:57:02Z

On 2020-11-18 14:46, Xie He wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 18, 2020 at 5:03 AM Xie He <xie.he.0141@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 18, 2020 at 12:49 AM Martin Schiller <ms@dev.tdt.de>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > I also have a patch here that implements an "on demand" link feature,
>> > which we used for ISDN dialing connections.
>> > As ISDN is de facto dead, this is not relevant anymore. But if we want
>> > such kind of feature, I think we need to stay with the method to control
>> > L2 link state from L3.
>>
>> I see. Hmm...
>>
>> I guess for ISDN, the current code (before this patch series) is the
>> best. We only establish the connection when L3 has packets to send.
>>
>> Can we do this? We let L2 handle all device-up / device-down /
>> carrier-up / carrier-down events. And when L3 has some packets to send
>> but it still finds the L2 link is not up, it will then instruct L2 to
>> connect.
>>
>> This way we may be able to both keep the logic simple and still keep
>> L3 compatible with ISDN.
>
> Another solution might be letting ISDN automatically connect when it
> receives the first packet from L3. This way we can still free L3 from
> all handlings of L2 connections.

ISDN is not important now. Also the I4L subsystem has been removed.

I have now completely reworked the patch-set and it is now much tidier.
For now I left the event handling completely in X.25 (L3).

I will now send the whole thing as v3 and we can discuss it further.