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    SubjectRe: [ANNOUNCE] Hardware detection tool 0.2
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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.

    bye...
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