From: Tomasz Torcz <zdzichu@irc.pl>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: On demand modules loading with {tmp,ram}fs and udev
Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2003 00:00:18 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-hotplug-106704029925575@msgid-missing> (raw)
Hi,
I was thinking about small addition to tmpfs. When mounted with 'dev'
option, any lookup of non existing file should result in calling
modprobe with filename as argument.
When coupled with mount tmpfs over /dev (or /udev) this functionality
would allow on-demand module loading (as with devfs and plain old
device nodes).
On #kernelnewbies I was told to use ramfs (as device nodes don't have
to be swap bakced). But it looks like polluting simple ramfs
with this mount option is not good. Is using tmpfs OK?
please cc me on comments.
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next reply other threads:[~2003-10-25 0:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-10-25 0:00 Tomasz Torcz [this message]
2003-10-25 0:42 ` On demand modules loading with {tmp,ram}fs and udev Greg KH
2003-10-25 1:09 ` Tomasz Torcz
2003-10-28 18:31 ` Greg KH
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