Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Fri, 25 Oct 2002 17:34:15 -0700
From:      Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com>
To:        Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: pppd not working on latest current 2002-10-20 
Message-ID:  <200210260034.UAA03676@tonnant.cnchost.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 25 Oct 2002 15:22:22 PDT." <20021025152221.A8479@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> 

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
> Here's a new patch that gives the user more of a hint at how to add PPP
> support and only loads the module if they are actully root.  How's this
> look?

I still don't like it.  How to explain....

I don't think it is pppd's responsibility to muck with
modules.  It is like mount kldloading a disk driver module.
Neither program has any business guessing which module name
goes with which device/feature.

What if I want to run ppp over ethernet over atm?  I know you
can't do this today but in general the trend should be to
make protocol modules more flexible not less.  Hardwiring
module names is analogous to making a function non-reentrant.

To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200210260034.UAA03676>