From: Nigel Kukard <nkukard@lbsd.net>
To: "Kevin P. Fleming" <kpfleming@backtobasicsmgmt.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6.3] Sysfs breakage - tun.ko
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 08:02:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040302060251.GG21950@lbsd.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40439B03.4000505@backtobasicsmgmt.com>
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Nothing said solves the problem, the problem has got nothing to do with
devfs (only for compat reasons), the problem is that "net/tun" breaks
sysfs.
-Nigel
On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 01:20:19PM -0700, Kevin P. Fleming wrote:
> Nigel Kukard wrote:
>
> >--- drivers/net/tun.c.old 2004-02-27 18:18:55.000000000 +0200
> >+++ drivers/net/tun.c 2004-02-27 18:19:02.000000000 +0200
> >@@ -605,7 +605,7 @@
> >
> > static struct miscdevice tun_miscdev = {
> > .minor = TUN_MINOR,
> >- .name = "net/tun",
> >+ .name = "tun",
> > .fops = &tun_fops
> > };
>
> This changed back and forth since the tun driver was added to the
> kernel; making this change will cause the devfs path to the tun node to
> change, and userspace applications expect it to be at /dev/misc/net/tun,
> whether that's right or wrong.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-02 6:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-03-01 19:48 [2.6.3] Sysfs breakage - tun.ko Nigel Kukard
2004-03-01 20:20 ` Kevin P. Fleming
2004-03-01 20:24 ` Nigel Kukard
2004-03-01 20:47 ` Chris Wright
2004-03-01 21:08 ` Kevin P. Fleming
2004-03-02 0:32 ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-03-02 6:02 ` Nigel Kukard [this message]
2004-03-03 2:28 ` Chris Wright
2004-03-04 5:25 ` Nigel Kukard
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