>No, PPP works fine without KMOD. There is a bug in linux/kmod.h, that it
>uses an (in that context) undefined -ENOACCES macro. What's needed is
>either to use a number (-1) there, or #include <linux/errno.h>.
No, thats not the problem.
The problem is that attempts to open "/dev/ppp" will fail without
KMOD, because the vfs layer (devices.c) will *not* call
request_module() to load the the module for char-major-108 (the code
is #ifdef'ed out).
Thus, there is no device to use. Its not a compile time problem, its a
run-time thing: modules that depend on dynamic "creation" of
major number devices via KMOD will never work without KMOD.
I suspect that ppp is not the only driver with this problem, BTW.
--p
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