From: "Alexander E. Patrakov" <patrakov@ums.usu.ru>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Non-hardware devices like loop: another idea
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 09:58:06 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <405972AE.9000008@ums.usu.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200403122003.00557.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.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-18 9:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-03-12 15:03 Non-hardware devices like loop: another idea Alexander E. Patrakov
2004-03-17 1:47 ` Mike Snitzer
2004-03-17 4:13 ` Alexander E. Patrakov
2004-03-17 4:26 ` Mike Snitzer
2004-03-17 6:39 ` Alexander E. Patrakov
2004-03-17 17:01 ` Mike Snitzer
2004-03-18 3:56 ` Alexander E. Patrakov
2004-03-18 4:24 ` Greg KH
2004-03-18 4:55 ` Mike Snitzer
2004-03-18 9:55 ` Alexander E. Patrakov
2004-03-18 9:58 ` Alexander E. Patrakov [this message]
2004-03-18 10:23 ` Marco d'Itri
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