Re: My $0.02 on devd and devfs
david parsons (orc@pell.portland.or.us)
14 Oct 1999 09:34:31 -0700
In article <linux.kernel.199910141142.IAA10452@pincoya.inf.utfsm.cl>,
Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl> wrote:
>orc@pell.portland.or.us (david parsons) said:
>
>[...]
>
>> I think there may be a bit of confusion here. The PC-style ports
>> already exist, and Linux already handles them. If I build a modular
>> kernel (which I do), the current version of Linux will already do the
>> fbm needed to load the drivers and give me access. If I use a
>> devfs, current 2.3.x's will do the fbm needed to load the drivers and
>> give me access without any changes to userland. But if I use devd as
>> described in recent email on the kernel list, I either have to have
>> the device nodes already installed or I have to bloat my kernel with
>> the detection parts of the drivers or I have to build the drivers
>> into the kernel.
>
>The described kernel will notify devd to create the nodes when they show
>up, i.e., on boot or when the device is plugged in.
How?
Until I insmod the parallel port driver, the kernel doesn't know
that there are any parallel ports around.
>Any dynamic /dev will
>have to include this exact functionality somehow,
Perhaps it would be a good idea if you wasted the five minutes
necessary to look at Richard Gooch's code before you commented
further on it.
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