should SLIP support be removed?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Thu, 18 May 2006, Andy Green wrote:

> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >   i ask only because of this snippet from networking/interface.c:
> >
> > #define HAVE_HWETHER    1
> > #define HAVE_HWPPP      1
> > #undef HAVE_HWSLIP		<--
> >
> > what exactly does that imply in terms of SLIP support?
>
> I'm actually using SLIP on a busybox, ifconfig seems to work okay
> (there is a minor bug that both ends of the PTP link show the same
> IP) with it, but slattach was needed externally from net-tools
> package.  You can set the SLIP IPs and so on with busybox ifconfig
> fine FWIW.

fair enough.  so what does that "undef" represent?  just curious.

rday