Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 11 Aug 1998 11:42:25 +0100 (GMT) | From | Matthew Kirkwood <> | Subject | Re: DevFS vs. normal /dev |
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On Tue, 11 Aug 1998, Richard Gooch wrote:
> > > How do you reference, say, /dev/fd0 if the floppy module isn't even > > > loaded? You need to do that so kmod loads the module, as things stand > > > now. > > > > This is an issue I raised the other day. Currently, to enable dynamic > > device loading, you must use the magic tar stuff to create the device > > in advance with the correct permissions owner, and group. There is > > a fundamental "chicken and the egg" problem with the auto-creation > > of device special nodes and use of kmod to auto-load modules. > > This isn't correct. If you attempt to do an inode lookup for an inode > that doesn't exist yet, devfs will send the name of the file to kmod > which will then load the module. > All that is required is the right alises in /etc/modules.conf
Ah. So why not fold devfs into autofs, then? (Or vice-versa.)
Matthew.
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