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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Martin Schlemmer <azarah@nosferatu.za.org>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
	viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk,
	Linux Kernel Mailing Lists <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: module-init-tools/udev and module auto-loading
Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2004 12:22:31 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040204014222.46AF02C29B@lists.samba.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 03 Feb 2004 19:48:06 +0200." <1075830486.7473.32.camel@nosferatu.lan>

In message <1075830486.7473.32.camel@nosferatu.lan> you write:
> > I think it's an excellent idea, although ideally we would have this
> > mechanism in userspace as much as possible.  Anything from some
> > special hack to block -ENOENT on directory lookups and notify an fd,
> > to some exotic overlay filesystem.
> 
> Something like attached.  Besides me not knowing if there is a better
> place for it, it have the following issues:

Dude, you're brave.  I mean, really, really brave.

However, it strikes me that the automounter does similar tricks, and
so a similar setup should be possible for /dev.

Al?  Suggestions appreciated?

Thanks,
Rusty.
--
  Anyone who quotes me in their sig is an idiot. -- Rusty Russell.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-02-04  1:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-02-01 22:31 module-init-tools/udev and module auto-loading Martin Schlemmer
2004-02-02  0:10 ` Rusty Russell
2004-02-02 19:02   ` Martin Schlemmer
2004-02-03  0:55     ` Rusty Russell
2004-02-03  4:55       ` Martin Schlemmer
2004-02-03 17:48       ` Martin Schlemmer
2004-02-03 19:33         ` viro
2004-02-03 20:47           ` Martin Schlemmer
2004-02-03 20:53             ` viro
2004-02-03 21:34               ` Martin Schlemmer
2004-02-04  1:22         ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2004-02-04  2:04           ` viro
2004-02-04  3:43             ` Rusty Russell
2004-02-02  5:21 ` Greg KH
2004-02-02 18:12   ` Jamie Lokier
2004-02-02 19:14     ` Martin Schlemmer
2004-02-02 19:13   ` Martin Schlemmer
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-02-02  7:20 "Andrey Borzenkov" 
2004-02-02  7:34 ` Greg KH
2004-02-03 15:00 "Andrey Borzenkov" 

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