From owner-freebsd-current Fri Oct 25 17:34:18 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A548C37B401 for ; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 17:34:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tonnant.cnchost.com (tonnant.concentric.net [207.155.248.72]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31F2943E4A for ; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 17:34:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bakul@bitblocks.com) Received: from bitblocks.com (adsl-209-204-185-216.sonic.net [209.204.185.216]) by tonnant.cnchost.com id UAA03676; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 20:34:15 -0400 (EDT) [ConcentricHost SMTP Relay 1.14] Message-ID: <200210260034.UAA03676@tonnant.cnchost.com> To: Brooks Davis Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pppd not working on latest current 2002-10-20 In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 25 Oct 2002 15:22:22 PDT." <20021025152221.A8479@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 17:34:15 -0700 From: Bakul Shah Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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