From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Martin Schiller Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 5/6] net/lapb: support netdev events Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2020 10:52:58 +0100 Message-ID: References: <20201116135522.21791-1-ms@dev.tdt.de> <20201116135522.21791-6-ms@dev.tdt.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Xie He Cc: Andrew Hendry , "David S. Miller" , Jakub Kicinski , Linux X25 , Linux Kernel Network Developers , LKML On 2020-11-16 21:16, Xie He wrote: > Do you mean we will now automatically establish LAPB connections > without upper layers instructing us to do so? Yes, as soon as the physical link is established, the L2 and also the L3 layer (restart handshake) is established. In this context I also noticed that I should add another patch to this patch-set to correct the restart handling. As already mentioned I have a stack of fixes and extensions lying around that I would like to get upstream. > If that is the case, is the one-byte header for instructing the LAPB > layer to connect / disconnect no longer needed? The one-byte header is still needed to signal the status of the LAPB connection to the upper layer.