From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261478AbUCBGDe (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Mar 2004 01:03:34 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261568AbUCBGDe (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Mar 2004 01:03:34 -0500 Received: from [196.25.168.8] ([196.25.168.8]:15758 "EHLO lbsd.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261478AbUCBGDa (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Mar 2004 01:03:30 -0500 Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 08:02:51 +0200 From: Nigel Kukard To: "Kevin P. Fleming" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [2.6.3] Sysfs breakage - tun.ko Message-ID: <20040302060251.GG21950@lbsd.net> References: <4043938C.9090504@lbsd.net> <40439B03.4000505@backtobasicsmgmt.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="RE3pQJLXZi4fr8Xo" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <40439B03.4000505@backtobasicsmgmt.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-PHP-Key: http://www.lbsd.net/~nkukard/keys/gpg_public.asc Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --RE3pQJLXZi4fr8Xo Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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. = = =20 -Nigel On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 01:20:19PM -0700, Kevin P. Fleming wrote: > Nigel Kukard wrote: >=20 > >--- 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 =3D { > > .minor =3D TUN_MINOR, > >- .name =3D "net/tun", > >+ .name =3D "tun", > > .fops =3D &tun_fops > > }; >=20 > This changed back and forth since the tun driver was added to the=20 > kernel; making this change will cause the devfs path to the tun node to= =20 > change, and userspace applications expect it to be at /dev/misc/net/tun,= =20 > whether that's right or wrong. --RE3pQJLXZi4fr8Xo Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFARCOKKoUGSidwLE4RAjypAKCmJLht6EWLi9SvNe/b8g1LC4pdIACfY+mF WAY2+h3OWRW2bTnwxzXAv1Y= =V2Xv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --RE3pQJLXZi4fr8Xo--