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SubjectRe: [GIT PATCH] Remove devfs from 2.6.17
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Will Dyson wrote:
> On 6/18/06, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:
>> Joshua Hudson wrote:
>> > With udev, you could mknod it yourself (in your application), then
>> open it.
>> > That would fire up the auto-module-load.
>>
>> Sure, but it would be even better if pointing udev to a set of modules
>> (or perhaps a file generated by depmod) and have it do it all
>> automatically.
>
> Providing the information about what devices a virtual driver will
> register when loaded seems like a good idea.

Why? This information is currently useless. What you want is that something
knows that you want this driver to be loaded. So, everything you need is one line:

MODULE_ALIAS("virtual_dev");

(add this to loop, nbd, ppp_generic, uinput, dm-mod and other "virtual" drivers
of your choice)

and the initscript that does a "modprobe virtual_dev" to catch them all.

--
Alexander E. Patrakov

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