Subject: Re: Attack of the clones: turning sl*, strip*, ppp* into cloners.
To: Michael Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca>
From: Todd Vierling <tv@wasabisystems.com>
List: tech-net
Date: 02/26/2002 15:42:39
On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, Michael Richardson wrote:

:     Andrew> that said, adding such a facility for automatic pre-creation of
:     Andrew> cloning interfaces ought not to be very hard.
:
:   Yes, it would be good to do that for awhile so that people aren't confused.
: ("How come I do not have any PPP devices. Look, I compiled them into the
: kernel!")

Document it, don't hack it.

The whole point of cloning devices is *not* to hardcode the number into the
kernel.  So, there shouldn't need to be a way to do that.

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