Will Dyson wrote:
On 6/18/06, H. Peter Anvin <[email protected]> wrote:
Joshua Hudson wrote:
> With udev, you could mknod it yourself (in your application), then
open it.
> That would fire up the auto-module-load.
Sure, but it would be even better if pointing udev to a set of modules
(or perhaps a file generated by depmod) and have it do it all
automatically.
Providing the information about what devices a virtual driver will
register when loaded seems like a good idea.
Why? This information is currently useless. What you want is that something
knows that you want this driver to be loaded. So, everything you need is one line:
MODULE_ALIAS("virtual_dev");
(add this to loop, nbd, ppp_generic, uinput, dm-mod and other "virtual" drivers
of your choice)
and the initscript that does a "modprobe virtual_dev" to catch them all.
--
Alexander E. Patrakov
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