On Friday 31 August 2001 00:40, Carlos E Gorges wrote:
> Hardware detection tool 0.2
> The main idea is keep a unified database of modules and
> create a good tool for hardware configurators.
The next version of the device registry patch (http://www.tjansen.de/devreg)
will contain a similar feature.
In the current release bus drivers (like PCI, USB..) register their devices
in the registry and the devices are then displayed in a generic,
bus-independent form in the /proc/devreg directory.
In the upcoming version those drivers with devreg support register themselves
on initialization and also register each driver instance (an instance handles
a single physical device) that they create. The instance will then be
connected to the device, devfs nodes will be connected to the driver instance
and you can get a pretty good graph of the relations between drivers, driver
instances, devfs nodes/minor numbers and the physical devices.
bye...
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