Re: Does anyone have a solution to the psaux / watchdog problem?

Brian Raymond Doherty (doherty@thirteen.baker.rice.edu)
Mon, 18 Mar 1996 19:21:45 -0600 (CST)


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On Mon, 18 Mar 1996, Alan Cox wrote:

> > A better solution would perhaps be to reserve a separate major number for
> > the watchdog module(s).
>
> A better solution than that might be to make the kerneld code aware of the
> mouse/misc device minor interface and able to load on 10.x
>
> Alan
>

Would it be fruitful to generalize this to all major numbers, or is char
10 the only one with this problem? If this problem is widespread, it
might be a good idea to pass both major and minor number in access
requests. A good way to implement this efficiently would be to allow the
use of wildcards in modules.conf, i.e. allow 'alias char-major-14-minor-*
sound' and so on.

B

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