Re: [Openvpn-devel] [PATCH] Remove support for Linux 2.2 configuration fallback

2011-06-04 Thread Gert Doering
Hi, On Fri, Jun 03, 2011 at 08:11:11PM +0200, David Sommerseth wrote: > Thanks! Yeah, this is just something I stumbled upon lately, but I saw > that there are more stuff which can be cleaned up! Indeed. I think this is actually something for the rest of the v2.3 preparation time... cleaning

Re: [Openvpn-devel] [PATCH] Remove support for Linux 2.2 configuration fallback

2011-06-03 Thread David Sommerseth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/06/11 19:22, Gert Doering wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, Jun 03, 2011 at 01:53:45PM +0200, David Sommerseth wrote: >> Considering that the last Linux 2.2 update was released 25-Feb-2004 >> and the first Linux 2.4 release came 04-Jan-2001, there are no

Re: [Openvpn-devel] [PATCH] Remove support for Linux 2.2 configuration fallback

2011-06-03 Thread Gert Doering
Hi, On Fri, Jun 03, 2011 at 01:53:45PM +0200, David Sommerseth wrote: > Considering that the last Linux 2.2 update was released 25-Feb-2004 > and the first Linux 2.4 release came 04-Jan-2001, there are no > reasonable reasons to help users to stay on outdated kernels. > I consider this extra code

[Openvpn-devel] [PATCH] Remove support for Linux 2.2 configuration fallback

2011-06-03 Thread David Sommerseth
When configuring OpenVPN nowadays, the TUN/TAP configuration can sometimes jump into the Linux 2.2 fallback code paths, which will also fails. The reason it jumps into fallback mode is that the tun/tap device already exists or that /dev/net/tun does not exist. This can be very confusing, as /dev/t