Re: Building WAN card driver as monolythic (2nd round)

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Fri, 3 Dec 1999 23:05:49 +0000 (GMT)


> > That is one solution. I've no objection to changing it to work that way
>
> But ... have you looked at the _size_ of this change ??? It will basically

Yes. Thats one reason I've not done it.

> code and you'll understand), plus one structure (ppp_device) will probably
> not be necessary anymore (which means changing the interface with drivers)
> ... Of course, I might be mistaken (actually, I _hope_ I am !! :).

the syncppp needs a dev pointer. Most of the rest seems ok as it extracts the
syncppp object from the device. Some of it gets ugly as you need to
use dev->priv for the syncppp which means you need drivers to use something
else.

Alan

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