Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 11 Aug 1998 16:35:26 +1000 | From | Richard Gooch <> | Subject | Re: DevFS vs. normal /dev (was DEVFSv50 and /dev/fb? (or /dev/fb/? ???)) |
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Jochen Heuer writes: > On Mon, Aug 10, 1998 at 03:57:04PM -0400, Horst von Brand wrote: > > Peter Hawkins <dph-man@iname.com> said: > > [...] > > > How do you reference, say, /dev/fd0 if the floppy module isn't even loaded? > > You need to do that so kmod loads the module, as things stand now. > > This is the biggest problem I see with the current devfs. While it > loads many modules correct it does not work for all modules which > are supported by devfs if they are loaded.
No, no, no! That's getting into policy! We want to minimise policy in the kernel.
> Try a _ls -l /dev/ide/_ with ide-disk, ide-mod and ide-probe as modules. > It does not work. There should be some reference to the module name > in devfs. E.g. /dev/ide/hd would load the module ide-disk. Or > /dev/sr would load sr_mod. Btw. maybe it is time to rename some modules > and find a standard name style. If I think of the modules
All you need is a properly configured /etc/modules.conf with the right aliases. For example:
alias sr sr_mod alias ide/hd ide-cd
and so on. Ideally, I'd like to prepend some special string (say "/dev/") to the names passed to kmod to reserve a "namespace" for devfs and avoid any possible conflicts.
Richard: are you happy to include a set of aliases with modutils that does this? If so I'll start collating names.
Regards,
Richard....
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