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SubjectRe: DEVFSv50 and /dev/fb? (or /dev/fb/? ???)
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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