Hello all, I wanted to spawn some discussion on the WAN/Serial interfaces supported and their implemented protocols. Specifically, I noticed support for some of the classic cards in our line (net/wan/sealevel.c), and I am looking to help support all of our cards. But, I recently received a request for support of our card as a character device rather than a networking device. My questions are: 1) Is there a reason to maintain these cards as network devices and _not_ develop them as character devices as well? 2) Are there drivers or utilities already created that provide a user-/kernel- level translation between a character device and a network device? 3) As far as protocols go, is there any movement to create a standard API for protocols, does one exist, and how well documented and tested is it? 4) Any other logistics and/or options that I cannot think of right now on this rainy Monday? These questions are really in response to the main kernel thread and how vendors are not supporting their cards. I am trying to do my part in making our cards supported in the happy place known as Linux. And it will be even better if I can help the development of the kernel along. Thanks, DaleW - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
