From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jamal Hadi Subject: Re: [PATCH, untested] Support for PPPOE on SMP Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 12:22:35 -0400 (EDT) Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: <20030625122128.V84526@shell.cyberus.ca> References: <20030625072602.529AF2C0B9@lists.samba.org> <1056547262.1945.1436.camel@brick.watson.ibm.com> <20030625091531.5ebed618.shemminger@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Michal Ostrowski , rusty@rustcorp.com.au, davem@redhat.com, paulus@samba.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com, fcusack@samba.org, dfs@roaringpenguin.com, carlson@workingcode.com Return-path: To: Stephen Hemminger In-Reply-To: <20030625091531.5ebed618.shemminger@osdl.org> Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > In the long run, the right answer probably is to push the session management > out of the daemon and into the kernel. Today the PPPoE code in the kernel > is only half-brained, it needs pppd to survive. > I would think pppd is the half-brained portion ;-> Placing control protocols in the kernel is plain wrong. cheers, jamal