There are a large number of files in the tree that define _GNU_SOURCE
despite not actually using features hidden behind this flag. This patch
removes all these definitions in one fell swoop...
The driver vtables are read-only structures. This patch declares them as
'const' allowing the compiler to (optionally) put them in the RELRO
section. RELRO pages may be marked as read-only by the linker after
the relocations have been done ensuring that they aren't inadvertently
or maliciously altered at runtime.
Previously, these drivers would check /sys/devices/virtual/misc/tun to
see if TUN is supported, and bail out otherwise. However, the tun module
can sometimes be autoloaded by opening the /dev/net/tun file. In this
case the /dev file already exists, but the /sys file only gets created
after the modul is loaded.
Additionally, the ppp code does not use the /sys file, but only the
/dev file, so checking for the existence of the latter seems a better
indicator of expected success.