On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 07:29:08AM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <20030929050442.GA20995_at_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. I'd say that for tun devices, the new symantics are probably good. We can worry about supporting interface cloning on them later. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4
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