From e4a51ea47c36387179b04cdeeea3a57d5f2e0072 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jo-Philipp Wich Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 17:03:24 +0000 Subject: [package] ppp: annotate most patches with description and S-o-b git-svn-id: svn://svn.openwrt.org/openwrt/trunk@32463 3c298f89-4303-0410-b956-a3cf2f4a3e73 --- package/ppp/patches/101-debian_close_dev_ppp.patch | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) (limited to 'package/ppp/patches/101-debian_close_dev_ppp.patch') diff --git a/package/ppp/patches/101-debian_close_dev_ppp.patch b/package/ppp/patches/101-debian_close_dev_ppp.patch index 2a30f45bdd..232b10b521 100644 --- a/package/ppp/patches/101-debian_close_dev_ppp.patch +++ b/package/ppp/patches/101-debian_close_dev_ppp.patch @@ -1,3 +1,15 @@ +pppd: Close already open ppp descriptors + +When using the kernel PPPoE driver in conjunction with the "persist" option, +the already open descriptor to /dev/ppp is not closed when the link is +reestablished. This eventually leads to high CPU load because the stray +descriptors are always reported as ready by select(). + +This patch closes the descriptor if it is already open when establishing a +new connection. It originated from the Debian project. + +Signed-off-by: Jo-Philipp Wich + --- a/pppd/sys-linux.c +++ b/pppd/sys-linux.c @@ -453,6 +453,13 @@ int generic_establish_ppp (int fd) -- cgit v1.2.3