Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261434AbUCAU1h (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Mar 2004 15:27:37 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261430AbUCAU0x (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Mar 2004 15:26:53 -0500 Received: from [196.25.168.8] ([196.25.168.8]:30620 "EHLO lbsd.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261428AbUCAUYw (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Mar 2004 15:24:52 -0500 Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 22:24:13 +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: <20040301202413.GB21950@lbsd.net> References: <4043938C.9090504@lbsd.net> <40439B03.4000505@backtobasicsmgmt.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 Content-Length: 988 Lines: 27 Nevermind if its right or wrong, it does not work in 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. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/