Re: module-init-tools/udev and module auto-loading

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On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 07:48:06PM +0200, Martin Schlemmer wrote:
> > > I guess there will be cries of murder if 'somebody' suggested that if
> > > a node in /dev is opened, but not there, the kernel can call
> > > 'modprobe -q /dev/foo' to load whatever alias there might have been?

Vetoed.  _Especially_ when you are checking that on "pathname prefix"
level - namei.c is not a place for such special-casing.

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