Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261437AbUCAVIM (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Mar 2004 16:08:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261436AbUCAVIM (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Mar 2004 16:08:12 -0500 Received: from wsip-68-14-253-125.ph.ph.cox.net ([68.14.253.125]:19895 "EHLO office.labsysgrp.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261437AbUCAVIJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Mar 2004 16:08:09 -0500 Message-ID: <4043A633.5090208@backtobasicsmgmt.com> Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2004 14:08:03 -0700 From: "Kevin P. Fleming" Organization: Back To Basics Network Management User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 (Windows/20040207) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chris Wright CC: Nigel Kukard , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [2.6.3] Sysfs breakage - tun.ko References: <4043938C.9090504@lbsd.net> <40439B03.4000505@backtobasicsmgmt.com> <20040301124723.P22989@build.pdx.osdl.net> In-Reply-To: <20040301124723.P22989@build.pdx.osdl.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 776 Lines: 20 Chris Wright wrote: > Why don't you use: > .devfs_name = "net/tun", That seems fine, if it will do the job. > Or fix userspace apps? Or switch to udev with devfs rules emulated and a > rule for the tun/tap driver? This is a stable kernel series; these kinds of userspace-breakage changes are not supposed to happen. Personally I have already started migrating my systems to udev, but it will take some time to complete that. Regardless, this would be a userspace-incompatible change if using .devfs_name won't do the job. - 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/