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[openbeosnetteam] Re: Unloading modules...

  • From: "David Reid" <dreid@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <openbeosnetteam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 00:04:02 +0100
In a short time it'll be junked anyway.

Why waste time working on it?

david
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nathan Whitehorn" <nathan.whitehorn@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <openbeosnetteam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2002 11:59 PM
Subject: [openbeosnetteam] Re: Unloading modules...


> > > - this can't be done via a socket, as a socket needs functions 
> > > to be called in modules. Therefore this should be done via a 
> > > sysctl call once we get that integrated into the kernel
> > 
> > Hum, what about a dedicated /dev/net/stack driver ioctl() ?
> > It's there. We can open() the driver *without* using a socket... 
> > AFAIR, there is already some NET_STACK_RESTART opcode, commented out, 
> > in the net_stack_control() code...
> 
> Why don't we toss /dev/net/stack and make a looper? It can sit on a 
> port waiting for control messages. This is a much better solution, 
> IMHO.
> -Nathan
> 
> --
> Fortune Cookie Says:
> 
> " ... I told my doctor I got all the exercise I needed being a
> pallbearer for all my friends who run and do exercises!"
> -- Winston Churchill
> 
> 
> 






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