HAL and PPP interfaces HAL and PPP interfaces Kay Sievers kay.sievers at vrfy.org Wed Dec 8 11:35:49 PST 2004 Previous message: HAL and PPP interfaces Next message: HAL and PPP interfaces Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 14:29 -0500, Joe Shaw wrote: > On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 22:22 +0300, Andrei Yurkevich wrote: > > Ok, you almost convinced me, but that would be not the PDA but a device  > > in a PC - either a serial port or a bluetooth/usb/whatever device. See,  > > I need to know that there is a PPP connection available before I am able  > > to talk to a PDA, and the most logical way of knowing about a new PPP  > > interface would be querying HAL. >  > Ah, ok, this makes sense to me. >  > > So what about adding a "net.ppp" namespace and merging properties like > > these to devices capable of running a ppp link: > > > > net.ppp.link (bool) /* TRUE if there's a PPP link available > >                         over this device */ >  > I would probably make the net.ppp namespace pretty transient and that > way you wouldn't need the net.ppp.link property.  Either a device has > the net.ppp capability (and thus has a link, etc.) or it doesn't.