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.
next prev 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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