Re: RFC: Resource Management

Kenneth Albanowski (kjahds@kjahds.com)
Tue, 5 Mar 1996 00:20:51 -0500 (EST)


On Tue, 5 Mar 1996, Eckes wrote:

> According to Kenneth Albanowski:
> > Hmm. This seems very similar to a comment I made earlier about being able to
> > ask any running driver for it's parameter list (in the same format that you
> > would feed the kernel command line.) A mechanism for iterating over the
> > drivers could also query each driver for that information.
>
> EXACTLY :) The list should include:
>
> name Comment/Version Parameters Runtimeinfo
>
> drivers/block/hd ide-1.1 hdc=cdrom hda: hda1 hda2
> drivers/char/lp lp driver by X-Person 1.2 irq=7
>
> The list will include compiled in subsystems and modules.

Hmm. I suppose this should either be an auto-generated file named
/proc/drivers, or a series of files
/proc/drivers/*/{location,version,params,info}, where * is some unique name
for each loaded driver.

Sounds very nice. Who's going to write it?

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