R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl (Rogier Wolff) said:
> Horst von Brand wrote:
> > R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl (Rogier Wolff) said:
> > [...]
> > > As we've come to the conclusion that a devfsd is a necessity, the
> > > "extra" deamon cannot be considered a problem. Moreover, this is just
> > > a "at boot time" thing that needs to run. You get back your process
> > > slot once it is done.
> > Nope. Think hot-plugging.
> Ok. Agreed. So we'll have to implement a way to kick the deamon when a
> hot-plug happens. (running it from cron doesn't cut it: too slow.)
I'd go for a combination like kmod + modutils here.
OTOH, you _can_ just create all necesary entries in /dev beforehand, and if
you access something you'll find out soon enough if it is there or not.
Works now, no assembly required.
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