Subject: Re: Locator values and usage To: Martin Husemann <>
From: Jonathan Stone <jonathan@DSG.Stanford.EDU> List: tech-kern
Date: 07/30/1997 16:30:15 Martin Husemann writes:   >I'm a bit
confused about the cf_loc values in struct cfdata.  >I would
like to use them for some special runtime configuration options
>on ISDN devices. This could look like this:  >teles0 at isa?
port 0xd80 irq 5         # the physical controller  >isdnbus0 at
teles0                      # the "line" (BRI)  >ipp0 at
isdnbus0 bchannel 1             # the "PPP over ISDN" device
>This would be usefull if ipp0 has a "leased line". The
b-channel assignement  >is usualy done dynamicaly by the
exchange, but would be forced to the given  >bchannel locator in
the example. This value is used only at connection setup  >time
(a flag in the setup packet). It's got nothing todo with how to
talk to  >the hardware, it's not needed to identify, match or
configure the device.  >It's just a runtime option, that is not
going to change during kernel r