Jamal: Now that I've had a chance to look at the code, it appears the sync support was simply *deleted* :( (syncppp.c is seperate from pppd and is used with the Z85230 adapter driver) I beleive the idea is that sync support can (in theory) be added back using the new generic interface. From what I can see at this point, the PPP interface has been partially abstracted through the new generic code, but pppd is also still talking directly to what is now called a 'ppp channel' driver. So the bad news is that this is not a trivial fix. I need to wade through the details of: 1. adding a new channel driver 2. adapting the our hardware device driver to work with the channel driver 3. work out what parts of pppd still talk directly to the channel driver and what parts work throught the generic layer and figure out how all of this applies to the pppd command line options. It may be possible to fold the channel driver into the device driver, but then there is no generic synchronous interface as before. I'm in the middle of another project at this time, but in about two weeks I should be able to start on writing the new sync support (at least for our hardware). This schedule is probably for the better anyways. My hope is that once 2.4 hits the PPP stuff should be stable enough to work with. In the mean time, you can still use ppp 2.3.7 or 2.3.8. You may have to manually downgrade the ppp files in the kernel if you need to use sync support in kernel 2.3.17+. Paul Fulghum [EMAIL PROTECTED] Microgate Corporation www.microgate.com 9501 Capital of Texas Hwy Austin, Texas 78759 (512)-345-7791 ----- Original Message ----- From: jamal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, October 09, 1999 10:00 PM Subject: kernel 2.3.19: sync option disappeared? > > > folks, > > It seems that using the "sync" option in the 2.3.* kernels which > introduce the generic ppp stuff is broken i.e it defaults to just > async framing. This works fine in 2.2.* (flag SC_SYNC) > The appropriate routines are available in the syncppp.c file. > Before i go on hacking things, is there a quick way to enable things > again? > > Out of curiosity: Is there a way to also add quick support to 2.0.* > kernels? > > cheers, > jamal > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ppp" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ppp" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
