Re: DevFS vs. normal /dev (was DEVFSv50 and /dev/fb? (or /dev/fb/? ???))

Jochen Heuer (jogi@planetzork.ping.de)
Tue, 11 Aug 1998 00:41:46 +0200


On Mon, Aug 10, 1998 at 03:57:04PM -0400, Horst von Brand wrote:
> Peter Hawkins <dph-man@iname.com> said:

[...]

> How do you reference, say, /dev/fd0 if the floppy module isn't even loaded?
> You need to do that so kmod loads the module, as things stand now.

This is the biggest problem I see with the current devfs. While it
loads many modules correct it does not work for all modules which
are supported by devfs if they are loaded.

Try a _ls -l /dev/ide/_ with ide-disk, ide-mod and ide-probe as modules.
It does not work. There should be some reference to the module name
in devfs. E.g. /dev/ide/hd would load the module ide-disk. Or
/dev/sr would load sr_mod. Btw. maybe it is time to rename some modules
and find a standard name style. If I think of the modules

sr_mod, sg, ide-disk, ...

I see no name standard. Wouldn't it be better to rename some modules

sg -> scsi-generic
sr_mod scsi-cdrom
sd -> scsi-disk

or something like this.

Regards,

Jogi

PS: Sorry for my broken english :\

-- 

Well, yeah ... I suppose there's no point in getting greedy, is there?

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