On Thu, 14 Jan 1999, Matthias Welwarsky wrote:
> Thomas Sailer wrote:
> >
> > Joerg Reuter wrote:
> >
> > > This code is *required* at this moment for the DAMA slave to work
> > > properly. Remove it and you'll loose 90% of the German user base.
> > > It will however vaninsh with Matthias' new AX.25 code, as it will
> > > properly abstract the channel access from the network driver. Right
> > > now just leave it alone.
> >
> > Hopefully the code Matthias will come up with still allows
> > us (me :-)) to write user mode AX.25 drivers. Currently I'm using
> > MKISS to stuff packets into the Kernel AX.25 from user mode.
>
> Hopefully ;-) We may still have a talk about the interface. kiss is fine
> to just get the data out of the kernel, however, the new code assumes
> that the driver supplies information about PTT and DCD state. Impossible
> with KISS, 6PACK via pty may be a solution, but 6PACK is much harder to
> implement on the driver side then kiss - I know that, I wrote the 6PACK
> driver for the TNC2 ;-)
>
> For sure you can go on with kiss and implement channel access on your
> own, but then the kernel won't be able to optimize the channel access
> strategy.
I realize this borders on heresy, but a more-functional replacement for
KISS is long overdue. At the time KISS was written by k3mc, ka9q, et al,
it was only intended as an interim solution. Of course, many will say
that the TNC2/Kantronics/AEA, etc., are obsolete as well, but there are
thousands in use.
Bob, w6swe
