Excuse me if I bounce this to the diald mailing list as well, I know
people have been trying to use 2.3.x kernels.
Mike
On 22 Oct 1999, really [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Mike Jagdis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > > diald uses ioctl PPPIOCGUNIT on terminal device to get the ppp unit
> > > number attached to the terminal. In the new ppp driver there is no
> > > such ioctl in ppp_async.c. I solved the problem so far by simply
> > > adding this ioctl to ppp_async, but I am not quite sure it is a good
> > > solution. Is there any another method to deal with this problem, or
> > > this ioctl was simply forgotten?
>
> > This is essential. Without it only pppd can know what unit was
> > allocated for a particular line. Without knowing the unit we
> > cannot know which interface we have just started.
>
> Ok, then something like the following patch can be applied.
>
> --
> Fedor Bezrukov E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Physics Department of MSU http://www.inr.ac.ru/~fedor/
> Institute for Nuclear Research Tel: 135-20-51
>
>
> --- orig/linux/drivers/net/ppp_async.c Thu Sep 2 16:17:46 1999
> +++ linux/drivers/net/ppp_async.c Fri Oct 22 16:13:41 1999
> @@ -64,6 +64,7 @@
>
> struct ppp_channel chan; /* interface to generic ppp layer */
> int connected;
> + int index;
> unsigned char obuf[OBUFSIZE];
> };
>
> @@ -387,6 +388,7 @@
> if (err != 0)
> break;
> ap->connected = 1;
> + ap->index = val;
> break;
> case PPPIOCDETACH:
> err = -ENXIO;
> @@ -394,6 +396,14 @@
> break;
> ppp_unregister_channel(&ap->chan);
> ap->connected = 0;
> + err = 0;
> + break;
> + case PPPIOCGUNIT:
> + err = -ENXIO;
> + if (!ap->connected)
> + break;
> + if (put_user(ap->index, (int *) arg))
> + break;
> err = 0;
> break;
>
> --
> Fedor Bezrukov E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Physics Department of MSU http://www.inr.ac.ru/~fedor/
> Institute for Nuclear Research Tel: 135-20-51
>
>
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