From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Renzmann Subject: Re: Fw: [Bugme-new] [Bug 3777] New: tun driver fails to open when built in, must be modular Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2004 06:27:39 +0100 Message-ID: <419ED5CB.3080106@web.de> References: <20041119150808.578154d3.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: To: netdev@oss.sgi.com In-Reply-To: <20041119150808.578154d3.akpm@osdl.org> Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Hi. Andrew Morton wrote: > Problem Description: kernel will not assign/open a tun device when tun.o is > compiled as a built-in. ifconfig gives 'unable to open /dev/net/tun' error. > compiling as a module fixes. If anyone can give me a small general hints for what might be the cause of this problem, I could take a look at it. I already have some patches for tun.o (that needs to be sent to the maintainer), another one doesn't hurt :) But since I'm not yet too experienced with programming of kernel modules, any help would be appreciated. Bye, Mike