Re: USB device allocation

Nathan Hand (nathanh@chirp.com.au)
Wed, 6 Oct 1999 23:14:22 +1000

On Wed, Oct 06, 1999 at 01:28:46PM +0200, Marcin Dalecki wrote:
> Nathan Hand wrote:
> >
> >
> > You lose the ability to run a Linux system without a filesystem which
> > knows about major/minor numbers. Only a tiny number of people are going
> > to complain about this (David?).
>
> What about just passing something along the lines of request_module("/dev/sdd4")
> to the kernel module loader instead of the request_module("k-major-2")
> or for example request_module("net_alias-2").

Because this puts policy in the kernel. This is undesirable.

> Or even better just provice a request_device("sdd", 'c', major_nr, minor_nr)
> istead
> and let the modprobe do anything appriopriate about it? This would be the way
> as it should had been done since even the beginning of modularization...

I can't comment because I don't know what you're trying to say here.

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