Re: gre devices in GENERIC

["Christian Edward Gruber" <cgruber@israfil.net>]

I tried config, and it specifically said I couldn't simply turn off
pre-compiled pseudo's without a recompile.

Regards,
Christian.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Shalayeff [mailto:mickey@lucifier.net] 
> Sent: Friday, August 09, 2002 2:15 PM
> To: Christian Edward Gruber
> Cc: ports@openbsd.org; tech@openbsd.org
> Subject: Re: gre devices in GENERIC
> 
> 
> Making, drinking tea and reading an opus magnum from 
> Christian Edward Gruber:
> > Hi,
> re
> 
> > 
> >    Since pptp seems to need to have no gre pseudo-devices 
> defined in 
> > order to work, would it make sense to move the gre definition from 
> > /sys/conf/GENERIC to /sys/arch/${ARCH}/conf/GENERIC ?  That way one 
> > isn't hacking up the /arch/GENERIC file just to run a port.
> > 
> >    Having said that, maybe the right answer is to get pptp 
> ot use the 
> > gre pseudo-device properly, but that's beyond my capabilities.
> > 
> >    Not a big issue, just a small quirk.
> 
> one does not need to recompile the kernel to disable 
> pseudo-devs, see config(8) and boot_config(8) .
> 
> cu
> 
> -- 
>     paranoic mickey       (my employers have changed but, the 
> name has remained)