On Mon, 1 Jul 1996 16:00:10 +0200 (MEST), Claus Schroeter
<clausi@chemie.fu-berlin.de> said:
> Hi,
> It may be possible that this question is very old:
> I read the 2.0 proc_xxxx routines and I wonder that there are no
> registry routines for Dynamic Device Inodes in say /proc/dev.
> It would be nice if any dynamically linked module could have its
> own dynamically allocated inode, since the registry in the proc filesystem
> could be done without occupying Major numbers.
The sysctl code in 2.0 allow modules to dynamically register new
entries anywhere they want under /proc/sys (well, almost --- there's a
small bugfix patch needed to make dynamic registration work properly,
but it got to Linus just a little too late for 2.0). It would be
quite easy to establish a convention for /proc/sys/dev and to let new
device modules register themselves there.
Cheers,
Stephen.
-- Stephen Tweedie <sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk> Department of Computer Science, Edinburgh University, Scotland.