Re: [PATCH net-next] pppoe: update Kconfig URLs

Dianne Skoll <[email protected]> Tue, 31 Mar 2026 10:25:08 -0400
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.linux-ppp,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel,org.kernel.vger.netdev
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi, all,

> My bad, my apologies. It was the userspace code you dropped then, which 
> does NOT require the kernel options?

I was considering doing that, but I kept the userspace code.  The reason is
that on some platforms, such as uclinux on a processor without an MMU,
the dlopen() system call is not implemented, so there's no way to use
a plugin with pppd.  One user asked me to keep the userspace code, so I
did.

But you are correct in that 99.99% of Linux users will not need to download
rp-pppoe if all they want to do is connect to the Internet using a PPPoE
client.

Regards,

Dianne.