Re: SyncPPP vs. ppp_synctty

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>What I think is we need just one PPP driver. Hovewer, ppp_generic
>requires tty device (either async or sync) and insists on creating
>network device. That isn't sane behavior if you just want existing
>net device to talk PPP.
>We should merge the drivers, AFAIK 2.5 is coming...

But the ppp_generic requires a tty device, i.e. is character-oriented,
where as the syncppp is network-oriented. Aren't they fundamentally
different. How can they be merged? Wouldn't that require the network
card to emulate a tty?

/Mårten
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