![]() | |||||||||||||
Messages in this thread |
On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 12:31:35PM +0200, Karel Kulhavy wrote: > I am looking into Documentation/devices.txt in 2.4.25 and eth0 is not listed > there. If I grep "eth", I get only > > 38 char Myricom PCI Myrinet board > [...] > "This device is used for status query, board control and "user level > packet I/O." This board is also accessible as a standard networking > "eth" device. " > > and then > > /dev/pethr0 > > Is eth0 some kind of special device that doesn't have any number > assigned? Yes, there's no such thing as /dev/eth0, network interfaces have their own namespace. Linux uses the defacto standard BSD socket interface for networking, so blame the BSD people for violating the "everything is a file" rule. Erik -- +-- Erik Mouw -- www.harddisk-recovery.com -- +31 70 370 12 90 -- | Lab address: Delftechpark 26, 2628 XH, Delft, The Netherlands - 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/ | ||||||||||||
| Last update: 2005-10-19 10:45 [W:0.317 / U:0.720 seconds] ©2003-2008 Jasper Spaans | |||||||||||||