Dave, Again, this is Ole's; but, the reason for having inet.c assign a major device number is because it is required for the Intel ABI and IBCS.
--brian On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, Dave Grothe wrote: > Brian: > > The attached patch is to be applied after the cleanup patch. It has tcp > make its node dynamically when it is compiled with > -DSEPARATE_MODULE. Thus, if it is built as a separate loadable module then > it does its own mknods at module init time. > > Thanks, > Dave > -- Brian F. G. Bidulock � The reasonable man adapts himself to the � [EMAIL PROTECTED] � world; the unreasonable one persists in � http://www.openss7.org/ � trying to adapt the world to himself. � � Therefore all progress depends on the � � unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw � _______________________________________________ Linux-streams mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://gsyc.escet.urjc.es/mailman/listinfo/linux-streams
