Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 12 Aug 1998 16:39:51 -0400 (EDT) | From | "Andrew J. Anderson" <> | Subject | Re: DEVFSv50 and /dev/fb? (or /dev/fb/? ???) |
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On Wed, 12 Aug 1998, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:
> Do we even need a daemon running all the time? We've just changed > module handling so that module requests simply invoke modprobe > directly rather than using a kludgy communication method with > kerneld. Is there something to be learned here?
Actually I've been trying to figure out if pre and post scripts from modprobe could be used to do the device creation/destruction, then a daemon may not be needed.
The minor number could be passed to modprobe from the kernel, since modprobe _should_ already know the major number, but the device _names_ could be determined by a modified modprobe, perhapsby referencing another field in conf.modules.
Richard, what are your thoughts on this? I can't think of why this wouldn't work, but I may be missing something.
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