Sorry for the late reply...
> But still I thing this is solely the distro�s problem. Applications and
> tools should never read such a file directly or via libax25. They should
> use the socket interface as all other protocol families also do.
The main purpose is to provide the relevant information to a script
that starts at boot time, being able to write a couple of tools to set
these parameters, validate the file and provide the information to other
applications if (and only if) they want to. You are right, no application
actually needs the information. Applications need axports and friends only
for the mapping of symbolic port names to devices -- everything else can
be done with ioctl() and *sockopt().
> > <!-- we can still have symbolic names if we want to -->
> > <name>1k2</name>
>
> That�s another thing I�d really like to get rid of. What�s the point of
> having symbolic names?
IMHO they are useful only for Node -- in fact, all information in
{ax,nr,rs}ports would be interesting only for Node if kissattach
would take a "speed" parameter... But that's only my opinion.
Joerg Reuter http://poboxes.com/jreuter/
And I make my way to where the warm scent of soil fills the evening air.
Everything is waiting quietly out there.... (Anne Clark)
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