Matthias Drochner <drochner@zelux6.zel.kfa-juelich.de> wrote:

>One could fake a major/minor and pass it to the kernel.
>One could even assign a major number for this purpose
>to "net".

I could never understand why these devices do not have major/minor
numbers and a device node. As it is, it is very hard to find out
what network interfaces there are, or what packet filters, etc.
Why don't we introduce major/minor numbers for these devices?

-Olaf.
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