Messages in this thread | | | From | "Alexander E. Patrakov" <> | Subject | Re: [GIT PATCH] Remove devfs from 2.6.17 | Date | Mon, 19 Jun 2006 13:14:36 +0600 |
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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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