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Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 18:52:57 -0500 From: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@...rogate.com> To: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> CC: khc@...waw.pl, jchapman@...alix.com, alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, jeff@...zik.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Re: WAN: new PPP code for generic HDLC David Miller wrote: > Users say this to strong-hand developers, it's not something you > should ever take very seriously. And even if Linux may simply not be > for them, well that's fine too, and implementing something as obscure > as HDLC PPP one way or the other is not going to change that. Certainly not a big deal for Linux, but more significant for vendors of HDLC hardware :-) David Miller wrote: > I would have been more than happy if syncppp was retained and fixed > properly, instead of being abandoned and duplicated in one fell swoop. I'd be happy with that also. I was responding to the suggestion of merging generic HDLC PPP with the pppd implementation. It's been suggested before, but doing so looks messy. James Chapman wrote: > Paul Fulghum wrote: >> Many customers who choose to use generic HDLC PPP are *dead* >> set against the added complexity and (user space) >> components of using pppd even though it has more features. > > Are there technical reasons or is the complexity just a lack of > familiarity? From what I can tell it was an existing investment in scripts, training, tools, naming conventions, etc. Even when provided with new tools and scripts that do the same thing (as far as I could tell) the response was suprisingly vehement against change. -- Paul -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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