From owner-cvs-all Sat Sep 25 2:56:28 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE6A614E81; Sat, 25 Sep 1999 02:56:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from des@flood.ping.uio.no) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA92665; Sat, 25 Sep 1999 11:56:23 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from des) To: Brian Somers Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/ppp bundle.c id.c id.h References: <199909220040.RAA43511@freefall.freebsd.org> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 25 Sep 1999 11:56:23 +0200 In-Reply-To: Brian Somers's message of "Tue, 21 Sep 1999 17:40:48 -0700 (PDT)" Message-ID: Lines: 14 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Brian Somers writes: > Log: > Do a kldload() if we get ENXIO trying to open /dev/tun0 Hmm, we should have a mechanism for querying the kernel about the presence or absence of a specific driver. Maybe a sysctl hierarchy that lists installed drivers and attached devices (and maybe even detected but unattached devices). (BTW, that would allow us to implement something like Windows' device manager, which is actually quite a cool concept) DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message