Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 21:22:55 -0700 (PDT) From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Heads up! config(8) changes.. Message-ID: <XFMail.990514212255.jdp@polstra.com> In-Reply-To: <199905150241.MAA11478@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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Bruce Evans wrote: > In old mail, John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> wrote: >> >>What do you do about the "ppc" device? Formerly, it needed to be "net >>irq ..." if the "plip" device was going to be used, but "tty irq ..." >>otherwise. Which one did you pick? > > tty was picked (see isa_compat.h). Also, support for the hack of > setting net_imask = tty_imask if slip is configured went away, so slip > now has the same problems as plip. I think most of these problems can be > avoided by configuring (kernel) ppp. ppp sets net_imask >= tty_imask, > which is sufficient provided slip and plip call splimp() as required. > Only cases where the masks change significantly after ppp is initialised > are necessarily broken. It seems to me that all this spl hackery would be better avoided, through a userland approach that used the tun device or something similar. John To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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