I've activated Device Drivers ---> Networking support ---> <*> Universal TUN/TAP device driver support im my 2.6.7 kernel. When udev starts after the kernel it says "add event not handled". When I add the output of $INTERFACE in /etc/hotplug/net.agent where "add event not handled" occurs, I see "add /dev/net/tun event not handled" when booting. It is obvious why this is not handled since the cases in net.agent only handle tun* but not /dev/net/tun . So I guess there should be no path /dev/net/ in /dev/net/tun . This seems to have no appreciable effect on using openvpn, for example. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Activate "Universal TUN/TAP device driver support" in kernel config 2. Compile kernel, ... 3. Reboot Actual Results: Message "add event not handled" Expected Results: No message # emerge info Portage 2.0.50-r8 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.3, glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r0, 2.6.7) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.7 i686 AMD Duron(tm) Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 distcc 2.14 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=i686 -O3 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=i686 -O3 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.de.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow X aalib acpi alsa apache2 apm avi berkdb bonobo cdr clamav crypt cups dedicated doc dvd encode esd fbcon foomaticdb freetype gd gdbm gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 imagemagick imlib java jpeg libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx motif mpeg mysql ncurses net nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python quicktime radeon readline ruby samba sdl slang spell sse ssl tcltk tcpd tetex truetype usb videos x86 xml2 xmms xv zlib"
Who prints out that message? The hotplug system? This is to be expected, the network startup should not handle the tun device. I don't see the problem here.
I just thought since something seems to be missing ("add event not handled") that I should report it. If it's expected, ok ...
Closed.