On Thu, May 05, 2016 at 09:30:43PM +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2016/05/02 09:34, Martin Natano wrote: > > Diff below simplifies the device open path and removes an explanation > > about bpf device nodes from the manpage. > > There's a problem with this. If someone is doing an "untar sets" > upgrade (which is not _supported_ but is pretty much necessary in > some situations) and relies on dhclient for network to get back > in to the system, they lose. > > Since they won't have a new MAKEDEV at the right time, I think > our options are either "change dhclient back to using /dev/bpf0" > or "tell them to run mknod manually before updating".
Adding this information to current.html seems like the way to go to me. I see you and tb@ have already done so (with instructions to run MAKEDEV after unpacking the sets), thanks! natano
