Re: [2.6.3] Sysfs breakage - tun.ko

From: Kevin P. Fleming
Date: Mon Mar 01 2004 - 15:22:21 EST


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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