From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1763522AbYDVWvo (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Apr 2008 18:51:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755764AbYDVWvc (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Apr 2008 18:51:32 -0400 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:47472 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754896AbYDVWvc (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Apr 2008 18:51:32 -0400 Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 15:51:33 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20080422.155133.19052713.davem@davemloft.net> To: jchapman@katalix.com Cc: jeff@garzik.org, paulkf@microgate.com, khc@pm.waw.pl, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Re: WAN: new PPP code for generic HDLC From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <480E6563.9020109@katalix.com> References: <480E5CB3.2080003@microgate.com> <480E4FA1.5020508@garzik.org> <480E6563.9020109@katalix.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 5.2 on Emacs 22.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: James Chapman Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 23:23:31 +0100 > I guess what caught my eye is a PPP control protocol implementation > being in the kernel. I'd seen syncppp before but I assumed it was there > for legacy reasons. A while ago there seemed to be strong desire to move > control protocols such as bridge spanning tree into userspace. Is this > no longer the case? It is still the case, believe me :-)