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From: Qingfang Deng <qingfang.deng@linux.dev>
To: "Pali Rohár" <pali@kernel.org>
Cc: Guillaume Nault <gnault@redhat.com>,
	Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
	Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>,
	Asim Viladi Oglu Manizada <manizada@pm.me>,
	Eric Woudstra <ericwouds@gmail.com>, Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>,
	Michal Ostrowski <mostrows@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC net-next] pppoe: remove session socket receive support
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2026 10:28:02 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <26e0b578-0f8f-49f6-aaa6-b814c89ebe3f@linux.dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260809225954.i36fajv6twbnjfdp@pali>

On 2026/8/10 6:59, Pali Rohár wrote:
> I see. Maybe you could ask developers of the first version of driver if
> they remember something. But probably nobody would remember old things.

I wish I could, but the maintainer of PPPoX has gone AWOL for quite a 
long time.. (commit 2fd68c7ea2ae)

> Clearing the queue after the transition happens sounds like a good idea.
> If I understand correctly, it does not make sense to get packets into
> userspace once the socket is bound to PPP layer.
>
> I have feeling that kernel PPP layer and its API do fully fit into the
> API for network devices and netlink layer for userspace.

      reply	other threads:[~2026-08-10  2:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-08-06  9:16 [RFC net-next] pppoe: remove session socket receive support Qingfang Deng
2026-08-09 14:58 ` Pali Rohár
2026-08-09 16:17   ` Qingfang Deng
2026-08-09 22:59     ` Pali Rohár
2026-08-10  2:28       ` Qingfang Deng [this message]

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