Re: RFC: Resource Management

Jeff Coy Jr. (jcoy@jcoy-ppp.cscwc.pima.edu)
Mon, 4 Mar 1996 02:45:27 -0700 (MST)


On 4 Mar 1996, Bernd Eckenfels wrote:

> Andrew Mileski (dmtech@magi.com) wrote:
> > 4) Is there *ANY* particular thing that would make your
> > life easier when dealing with hardware resources?
>
> Yes, a list of all drivers currently registred/compiled into the kernel,
> together with a list of configured drivers attached to found hardwa re would
> be nice.
>
i think that is what .../linux/Documentations/devices.t{xt,ex} is for.
but on this note, how about distributing MAKEDEV with the kernel source?

jeff

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Why Linux? source code. POSIX. tcpip. job control. support from the authors.
drivers for most hardware.  because one terminal or process is never enough.
    forget the other O/Ss, i use Linux- the choice of a gnu generation.