Re: [coLinux-users] Enable config_hotplug in kernel .config

[Ron H. <he...@gm...>]

I enabled config_hotplug and the kernel compiled and worked fine, but it
didn't solve my problem of no /dev/net/tun device file upon modprobing the
tun module.  I am not a hotplug or udev guru, I'm a devfs kind of guy, so I
may be doing something else wrong.  I decided once I was able to customize
the coLinux kernel, instead of modular tun and hotplug nonsence I would just
make tun part of the kernel and that fixed it for good.

I am running Gentoo in my coLinux, and they provide an option in
/etc/conf.d/rc to tar the contents of the /dev tempfs to be restored at next
boot which would also solve the problem if you makedev the /dev/net/tun
device yourself.

I would like to know if what I was attempting with hotplug is possible in
coLinux and where I went wrong.  If I find the time, I'll boot a test
instance and look into it more fully.

Ron Helzer
he...@gm...

On 9/9/06, George P Boutwell <geo...@gm...> wrote:
>
> Let us know how your custom kernel goes...  If you don't experience
> too many problems with it enabled, then we can test it and see how it
> makes out.
>
> On 9/9/06, Ron Helzer <he...@gm...> wrote:
> > I am in the process of building a custom kernel for use with coLinux to
> > enable hotplug support.  I am assuming  that since coLinux prevents
> > interaction directly with the hosts hardware, hotplug support was deemed
> > unnecessary.
> >
> > However, devices such as /dev/net/tun need hotplug support to work
> properly
> > with udev.  May I suggest that future coLinux default kernel
> configurations
> > have config_hotplug enabled?
>
> --
> George
>