Messages in this thread | | | From | Tim Jansen <> | Subject | Re: [ANNOUNCE] Hardware detection tool 0.2 | Date | Sat, 1 Sep 2001 12:54:55 +0200 |
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On Friday 31 August 2001 00:40, Carlos E Gorges wrote: > Hardware detection tool 0.2 > The main idea is keep a unified database of modules and > create a good tool for hardware configurators.
The next version of the device registry patch (http://www.tjansen.de/devreg) will contain a similar feature. In the current release bus drivers (like PCI, USB..) register their devices in the registry and the devices are then displayed in a generic, bus-independent form in the /proc/devreg directory. In the upcoming version those drivers with devreg support register themselves on initialization and also register each driver instance (an instance handles a single physical device) that they create. The instance will then be connected to the device, devfs nodes will be connected to the driver instance and you can get a pretty good graph of the relations between drivers, driver instances, devfs nodes/minor numbers and the physical devices.
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