Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 12 Aug 1998 10:10:03 +0100 (GMT/BST) | From | Mike Jagdis <> | Subject | Re: DEVFSv50 and /dev/fb? (or /dev/fb/? ???) |
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On Tue, 11 Aug 1998, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:
> My preference would be to store the inodes in the filesystem. If you're > going to be using a user mode daemon anyway, as you've suggested in > other mail messages, then let's define a well-defined interface for the > kernel to notify the user mode daemon that new devices has apeeared > (either at boot time or due to a PCMCIA/USB/1384 device getting > inserted), so that the user mode daemon can create the devices as > necessary.
Do we even need a daemon running all the time? We've just changed module handling so that module requests simply invoke modprobe directly rather than using a kludgy communication method with kerneld. Is there something to be learned here?
Mike
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