Messages in this thread | | | From | "Paul Fulghum" <> | Subject | PPP Kernel Driver | Date | Fri, 15 Jan 1999 15:48:31 -0600 |
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I've made changes to the kernel PPP driver ppp.o to support synchronous PPP, specifically in: linux/drivers/net/ppp.c linux/include/linux/if_ppp.h linux/include/linux/if_pppvar.h
At some point in its history, attempts were made to allow this module to compile under both 2.0.x and 2.1.x using conditional compilation.
But the latest 2.2pre kernel version of ppp.c has abandoned this (I assume to have cleaner code) and will not compile under 2.0.36 due to many 2.2pre specific calls.
So I also made my changes to the 2.0.36 kernel version of ppp.o. Then I noticed that this (and the 2.2 version) is out of sync with the ppp.o distributed with the ppp-2.3.5 package.
So there are three different versions.
The confusing part is that some parts of the driver in the ppp package are newer than the 2.0.36 kernel while other parts are older (all are different).
It would be nice to at least sync the latest ppp package version with the 2.0.36 kernel version (both build under 2.0.x). It would be even better to sync all three versions by adding the conditional compilation to the 2.2 kernel version and just using that one.
I'm willing to give this a shot but I've been unable to get a response from any of the listed maintainers. I don't want to get in the way if someone else is already working on this or if the current maintainers (if any) are vehemently opposed to this. Does anyone have any information on this? Has this code become orphaned?
Paul Fulghum, paulkf@microgate.com Microgate Corporation 9501 Capital of TX Hwy Austin, TX 78759 (512)-345-7791
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