Re: My $0.02 on devd and devfs

Dan Hollis (goemon@sasami.anime.net)
Mon, 11 Oct 1999 16:56:58 -0700 (PDT)

On Mon, 11 Oct 1999, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Drivers which are not explicitly hot-plug need some sort of "kick"
> before the kernel knows it needs to load a module/driver. Having that
> kick come in the form of open(), or worse stat(), is the part I don't
> like.

But this is what happens with kerneld/kmod (well, mostly). Someone does an
open() on a device node. The kernel sees a request for a maj/min which
isnt registered with the kernel yet. So it kicks off modprobe to load the
driver, in the hopes the request can be fulfilled.

Same concept.

-Dan

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