CONFIG_NETLINK_DEV: Netlink device emulation

General informations

The Linux kernel configuration item CONFIG_NETLINK_DEV:

• prompt: Netlink device emulation
• type: tristate
• depends on: (none)
• defined in net/Kconfig
• found in Linux kernels: 2.5.45–2.5.75, 2.6.0–2.6.11
• modules built: netlink_dev

Help text

This option will be removed soon. Any programs that want to use character special nodes like /dev/tap0 or /dev/route (all with major number 36) need this option, and need to be rewritten soon to use the real netlink socket. This is a backward compatibility option, choose Y for now.

Hardware

LKDDb

Raw data from LKDDb:

• lkddb module netlink_dev CONFIG_NETLINK_DEV : net/Kconfig : "Netlink device emulation" # in 2.5.45–2.5.75, 2.6.0–2.6.11

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This page is automaticly generated with free (libre, open) software lkddb(see lkddb-sources).

The data is retrived from:

• Linux kernel
• Linux Kernel Driver DataBase (LKDDb)

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