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Date:      Wed, 16 Dec 1998 15:38:55 -0800
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>
Cc:        Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, y-nakaga@nwsl.mesh.ad.jp (NAKAGAWA Yoshihisa), mike@smith.net.au, wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu, nate@mt.sri.com, nathan@rtfm.net, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: PAO Integration? 
Message-ID:  <199812162338.PAA01733@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 16 Dec 1998 08:11:36 GMT." <199812160811.IAA37602@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org> 

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> [.....]
> > Try to name one ting that you could do with "config" that you could
> > not do with a sufficiently dynamic kernel loadable module framework.
> [.....]
> 
> Is it possible to load ``n'' pseudo-devices (without teaching the 
> driver to be dynamic enough to do it itself) ?  My kernel config says 
> ``pseudo-device tun 300''....

You can only do this by setting the compile-time tunable, ie. set NTUN 
to 300 when you build the module.

Pseudo-devices probably want their own bus, whose probe code would be 
responsible for resolving this.

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