From: "Paul Fulghum" <paulkf@microgate.com>
To: "Matt Schulkind" <mschulkind@sbs.com>,
<linux-ppp@vger.kernel.org>, <paulus@samba.org>,
<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Syncppp
Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 16:49:56 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <002f01c11eca$1db590f0$8119fea9@diemos> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3810755D5165D2118F4400104B36917AC4FD34@normandy>
> In the 2.2.16 kernel, it seems that the ppp_device structure was changed to
> use a pointer to the net device instead of haveing the structure contained
> within, and the if_down procedure was changed accordingly to use the sppp_of
> macro. But, if I take a look at the 2.4.x kernel sources, it seems only the
> first change, the pointer vs. struct change was made, but the if_down
> procedure was not changed. I believe this is a bug and the if_down procedure
> in the 2.4.x kernel must be changed to match 2.2.16+. Could anyone confirm
> this?
> -Matt Schulkind
It looks like you are right. The current 2.4 code
appears to scribble into the net_device structure
someplace (yuck) when if_down() is called.
I'm going to change this and test it tomorrow to be
for sure.
Paul Fulghum paulkf@microgate.com
Microgate Corporation www.microgate.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-08-06 21:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-08-06 19:15 Syncppp Matt Schulkind
2001-08-06 22:49 ` Paul Fulghum [this message]
2001-08-07 9:26 ` Syncppp Bob Dunlop
2001-08-07 14:32 ` Syncppp Paul Fulghum
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