Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 11 Aug 1998 00:08:01 -0700 | From | Richard Henderson <> | Subject | Re: DevFS vs. normal /dev (was DEVFSv50 and /dev/fb? (or /dev/fb/? ???)) |
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On Tue, Aug 11, 1998 at 04:35:26PM +1000, Richard Gooch wrote: > All you need is a properly configured /etc/modules.conf with the right > aliases. For example: > > alias sr sr_mod > alias ide/hd ide-cd > > and so on. Ideally, I'd like to prepend some special string (say > "/dev/") to the names passed to kmod to reserve a "namespace" for > devfs and avoid any possible conflicts. > > Richard: are you happy to include a set of aliases with modutils that > does this? If so I'll start collating names.
Not thrilled, but it is an acceptible work-around.
The proper solution would be for the device name and other essentials to be encoded in the module source itself, to be collected by depmod.
But such a change is not high on the priority queue.
r~
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