Re: [PATCH 06/13] USBATM: shutdown open connections when disconnected

[juampe <juampe@iquis.com>]

juampe wrote:
>> This patch causes vcc_release_async to be applied to any *open
>> ** v*cc's when the modem is *disconnected*. 
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>> Unfortunately this patch may create problems
>> for those rare users like me who use routed IP or some other
>> non-ppp connection method that goes via the ATM ARP daemon: the
>> daemon is buggy, and with this patch will crash when the modem
>> is *disconnected*.  Users with a buggy atmarpd can simply restart
>> it after disconnecting the modem.
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> First i must thanks all effort in usbatm development.
> IMHO New fatures to a driver that works well and can block the use, 
> especially if it can disable internet access and the problem is know,
> MUST be disabled by default or provide a mechanism to disable it.
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> I'm a rare user with routed IP and this patch blocks the normal use of internet
> I dont understand how this patch can be accepted for a stable release without 
> any kind of disable mechanism.
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> Yeah, i know that atmarp is buggy, but before speedtouch driver and atm works well during months.
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> Best Regards.
> Juampe.
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I really sorry, this is a patch to 2.6.16 and this kernel version works
well the speedtouch driver.
I have problems with 2.6.17 and the speedtocuh driver block the
conection at some point that  i can't locate.

wave:~# atmdiag
Itf       TX_okay   TX_err    RX_okay   RX_err    RX_drop
  0 AAL0         0         0         0         0         0
    AAL5    266537         0    198023         1         0

RX cells don't increment, AFAIK the driver don't manage incoming ATM cells

How i can dig more into this issue in order to extract  relevant
information for a bug report?.

Best Regards
Juampe.