Re: DevFS vs. normal /dev (was DEVFSv50 and /dev/fb? (or /dev/fb/? ???))
Richard Henderson (rth@dot.cygnus.com)
Tue, 11 Aug 1998 00:08:01 -0700
On Tue, Aug 11, 1998 at 04:35:26PM +1000, Richard Gooch wrote:
> All you need is a properly configured /etc/modules.conf with the right
> aliases. For example:
>
> alias sr sr_mod
> alias ide/hd ide-cd
>
> and so on. Ideally, I'd like to prepend some special string (say
> "/dev/") to the names passed to kmod to reserve a "namespace" for
> devfs and avoid any possible conflicts.
>
> Richard: are you happy to include a set of aliases with modutils that
> does this? If so I'll start collating names.
Not thrilled, but it is an acceptible work-around.
The proper solution would be for the device name and other
essentials to be encoded in the module source itself, to
be collected by depmod.
But such a change is not high on the priority queue.
r~
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