Re: Non-hardware devices like loop: another idea

["Alexander E. Patrakov" <patrakov@ums.usu.ru>]

Mike Snitzer wrote:

>Ok, so at system boot udevstart walks sysfs and populates /dev 
>accordingly;
>loop devices work great.  GregKH says tun/tap devices now work in 2.6.4;
>so ultimately its just a matter of adding sysfs support to the various
>device drivers.
>
>But your desire for loading modules when a device node is accessed isn't
>doable.

This is not my desire. My wish is that all devices supported by kernel
(even by means of modules) should be present in /dev, before (not when!)
a program tries to access them, as it is the case now e.g. for PCI
soundcards where the hotplug initscript probes the needed modules when
the system boots.

-- 
Alexander E. Patrakov












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