Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] wan: dlci/sdla transmit return dehacking

From: Krzysztof Halasa <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 04 Sep 2009 20:48:50 +0200

Stephen Hemminger <[email-masked]> writes:

> This is a brute force removal of the wierd slave interface done for
> DLCI -> SDLA transmit. Before it was using non-standard return values
> and freeing skb in caller. This changes it to using normal return
> values, and freeing in the callee. Luckly only one driver pair was
> doing this. Not tested on real hardware, in fact I wonder if this
> driver pair is even being used by any users.

The only hardware which seems to be driven by dlci.c is sdla.c =
old Sangoma ISA cards.

Sangoma seems to maintain their own drivers for their hw (including
these ISA cards).

Are the in-kernel drivers functional after all those years? I don't
know.
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Krzysztof Halasa