From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jul 17 14:39:34 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA28970 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Fri, 17 Jul 1998 14:39:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA28961 for ; Fri, 17 Jul 1998 14:39:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by alpo.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA20409; Fri, 17 Jul 1998 14:38:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from current1.whistle.com(207.76.205.22) via SMTP by alpo.whistle.com, id smtpd020393; Fri Jul 17 21:37:52 1998 Message-ID: <35AFC428.ABD322C@whistle.com> Date: Fri, 17 Jul 1998 14:37:44 -0700 From: Julian Elischer Organization: Whistle Communications X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.5-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stefan Eggers CC: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Should IP over SLIP/PLIP work w/o loop device? References: <199807170748.JAA07048@semyam.dinoco.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG While theoretically the loop device is independent, it is in practice a needed component in an IP capabel kernel. The function simloop, in fact really should be removed from if_loop.c and placed in if.c. It's where it is for historical reasons. julian Stefan Eggers wrote: > > Hi! > > I just tried to compile a small -current kernel (source is from early > July) for my 386/33 (where I intend to test swapoff). While doing so > I commented out the pseudo device loop by accident but kept sl and > discovered it won't finish the kernel generation. sl is - besides lp > - the only network interface I left in it. > > The problem is that it needs sys/net/if_loop.c - specifically simloop > in there but that config didn't include in the generated Makefile. > Should it - despite being a strange configuration - in theory compile? > > Stefan. > -- > Stefan Eggers Lu4 yao2 zhi1 ma3 li4, > Max-Slevogt-Str. 1 ri4 jiu3 jian4 ren2 xin1. > 51109 Koeln > Federal Republic of Germany > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message