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DateTue, 2 Mar 2004 08:02:51 +0200
FromNigel Kukard <>
SubjectRe: [2.6.3] Sysfs breakage - tun.ko
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.

-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.

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