Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 07:29:08 +0200 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: TEST PLEASE: if_tun patch Message-ID: <4472.1064813348@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 28 Sep 2003 22:04:42 PDT." <20030929050442.GA20995@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>
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In message <20030929050442.GA20995@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>, Brooks Davis writes: >> | Properly dismantle and remove the interface and destroy the dev_t=20 >> | at last close of the device. > >I'm not convinced this is the right direction to move in. The problem >is that users are beginning to expect that pseudo-interfaces be created >with network interface cloning, but tun, tap, and vmnet aren't. I'm totally "don't-care" on the semantics of any and all of these, my patch is just an attempt to evict makedev() from the tree. If you have a better idea how to do this, by all means go for it. It has also been pointed out that my subsequent if_tap.c patch would likely break the way people expect the "vmnet" device to work so I have already canned that. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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