Re: [GIT PATCH] Remove devfs from 2.6.17

[Alexander E. Patrakov]

Will Dyson wrote:
> On 6/18/06, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Joshua Hudson wrote:
> > > With udev, you could mknod it yourself (in your application), then 
> > open it.
> > > That would fire up the auto-module-load.
> >
> > Sure, but it would be even better if pointing udev to a set of modules
> > (or perhaps a file generated by depmod) and have it do it all 
> > automatically.
>
> Providing the information about what devices a virtual driver will
> register when loaded seems like a good idea.

Why? This information is currently useless. What you want is that something 
knows that you want this driver to be loaded. So, everything you need is one line:

MODULE_ALIAS("virtual_dev");

(add this to loop, nbd, ppp_generic, uinput, dm-mod and other "virtual" drivers 
of your choice)

and the initscript that does a "modprobe virtual_dev" to catch them all.

--
Alexander E. Patrakov

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