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Am 02.01.2012 um 22:32 schrieb Adrian Chadd:

> Hi,
>=20
> How about ray (or stefan, or someone :) does up a bit of a summary as
> to how zrouter uses the floatphy and other stuff in the configuration
> hints to represent all of this?
>=20
> Would we be better off changing the miibus code to work with the
> notion of non-phy devices? Would that help a bit?

If you wouldn't mind waiting a day or two, I'm working on a suggestion.  =
First draft RSN=85


Stefan

--=20
Stefan Bethke <stb@lassitu.de>   Fon +49 151 14070811