To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
From: hpa@zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin)
Subject: Re: [2.6.3] Sysfs breakage - tun.ko
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 00:32:59 +0000 (UTC)
Organization: Transmeta Corporation, Santa Clara CA
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Followup to:  <40439B03.4000505@backtobasicsmgmt.com>
By author:    "Kevin P. Fleming" <kpfleming@backtobasicsmgmt.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> 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.
> 

Bullsh*t.

User-space apps expect it to be /dev/net/tun, which is the documented
path for this device node.  Anything else is a devfs bug (/dev/misc is
a devfs bug from beginning to end.)

	-hpa
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