Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 5 Mar 1996 00:20:51 -0500 (EST) | From | Kenneth Albanowski <> | Subject | Re: RFC: Resource Management |
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On Tue, 5 Mar 1996, Eckes wrote:
> According to Kenneth Albanowski: > > Hmm. This seems very similar to a comment I made earlier about being able to > > ask any running driver for it's parameter list (in the same format that you > > would feed the kernel command line.) A mechanism for iterating over the > > drivers could also query each driver for that information. > > EXACTLY :) The list should include: > > name Comment/Version Parameters Runtimeinfo > > drivers/block/hd ide-1.1 hdc=cdrom hda: hda1 hda2 > drivers/char/lp lp driver by X-Person 1.2 irq=7 > > The list will include compiled in subsystems and modules.
Hmm. I suppose this should either be an auto-generated file named /proc/drivers, or a series of files /proc/drivers/*/{location,version,params,info}, where * is some unique name for each loaded driver.
Sounds very nice. Who's going to write it?
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