From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Alexander E. Patrakov" Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 09:58:06 +0000 Subject: Re: Non-hardware devices like loop: another idea Message-Id: <405972AE.9000008@ums.usu.ru> List-Id: References: <200403122003.00557.patrakov@ums.usu.ru> In-Reply-To: <200403122003.00557.patrakov@ums.usu.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org 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 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id70&alloc_id638&op=click _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel