Date: Fri, 17 Jul 1998 14:37:44 -0700 From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> To: Stefan Eggers <seggers@semyam.dinoco.de> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Should IP over SLIP/PLIP work w/o loop device? Message-ID: <35AFC428.ABD322C@whistle.com> References: <199807170748.JAA07048@semyam.dinoco.de>
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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
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