Re: RFC: Resource Management

Bernd Eckenfels (ukd1@rzstud1.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de)
5 Mar 1996 04:58:09 GMT

Jeff Coy Jr. (jcoy@jcoy-ppp.cscwc.pima.edu) wrote:
> > 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.

No, cause a lot of drivers have no device files (drivers/net/*) and some of
them are not used. I think about something like that:

-------------------------------------------------------------------
main linux/i386 1.3.70 #1
drivers/net/ne2000 Bla Bla Bla V1.0 irq=5 io=xxx
drivers/net/wd8003 blablalla V0.1 no hardware
drivers/block/md md-1.0 maxdev=8 used=2
drivers/char/watchdog watchdo-0.3 (module) open=1
...
--------------------------------------------------------------------

The issue of Major/Minor Devices should be addressed in /proc/devices.

Greetings
Bernd

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