Subject: Re: Cloning network pseudo-devices
To: None <thorpej@zembu.com>
From: None <itojun@iijlab.net>
List: tech-net
Date: 07/03/2000 05:38:38
> > 	i'm yet to try the code out myself, but does it mean "create" is
> > 	mandatory for all cases for gif?  I would like to see N gif devices
> > 	to present on startup, with "pseudo-device gif N".  it seems to
> > 	me that gifattach() does nothing about "count" argument.
>Yes, I suppose I could change it to do that.  I guess that would make
>it more consistent with interfaces that have not yet been changed to
>support cloning...

	something like this?

	no "pseudo-device": no gif code in kernel
	"pseudo-device gif 0": no gif present, need "create"
	"pseudo-device gif 1": gif0 is present, need "create" for gif1 and up
	"pseudo-device gif 2": gif0 and gif1 are present

	we will need to change "#if NGIF > 0" in the code.

itojun