Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268685AbTGTWdp (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Jul 2003 18:33:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268731AbTGTWdp (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Jul 2003 18:33:45 -0400 Received: from starcraft.mweb.co.za ([196.2.45.78]:1990 "EHLO starcraft.mweb.co.za") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268685AbTGTWdn (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Jul 2003 18:33:43 -0400 Subject: Re: devfsd/2.6.0-test1 From: Martin Schlemmer Reply-To: azarah@gentoo.org To: Andrey Borzenkov Cc: KML , Rusty Russell , Greg KH In-Reply-To: <200307202117.32753.arvidjaar@mail.ru> References: <200307202117.32753.arvidjaar@mail.ru> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-2Mmg6TMB1XOsOh5dexoi" Message-Id: <1058741336.19817.147.camel@nosferatu.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.3 Date: 21 Jul 2003 00:48:56 +0200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2554 Lines: 86 --=-2Mmg6TMB1XOsOh5dexoi Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, 2003-07-20 at 19:17, Andrey Borzenkov wrote: > > Well, it implements probeall in another fashion. Also, you might > > try /sbin/generate-modprobe.conf to convert a modules.conf to > > modprobe.conf syntax. >=20 > modprobe.conf syntax is easy to implement but unfortunately PITA to use.=20 > Exactly probe and probeall have been very helful in tracking module=20 > dependencies. Now you have arbitrary shell line that is near to impossibl= e to=20 > parse in general. >=20 True. > I added half-hearted support to mkinitrd and initscripts for Mandrake but= it=20 > will never be complete given the current situation. >=20 > Also I fixed devfsd to correctly use modprobe.devfs or modules.devfs depe= nding=20 > on which kernel it runs on; patch has been sent both to lkml and devfs li= st=20 > and is included in current Mandrake devfsd. >=20 As I have it in Gentoo, it is done modprobe side, but only because its less patches (as Rusty already added the changes to his hack, plus the modprobe.devfs I sent him). > actually adding probe and probeall is trivial enough, I did not want to b= ase=20 > Mandrake packages on that to avoid incompatibility. >=20 Have you checked with Rusty yet if he will accept probe/probeall patches for module-init-tools ? I (IMHO) do not see why it should not be possible to add if its done cleanly, and do not break anything else. > > Also, read the threads on the list about udev/hotplug - apparently > > devfsd is going out ... >=20 > as long as you have memory-based /dev you need devfsd even if it is calle= d=20 > differently. > I have not looked at it myself, but as far as I have it, you do not mount /dev, and just need udev/hotplug/libsysfs (not sure on libsysfs). Currently udev still call mknod, but I think Greg said he will fix that in the future. Regards, --=20 Martin Schlemmer --=-2Mmg6TMB1XOsOh5dexoi Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA/GxxYqburzKaJYLYRAnFOAJ9AAIFg7KQQPaNtGkZJqi5tecShYgCfblhW Bl3G/pNFpjMQyzo+miYeiD4= =YdjW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-2Mmg6TMB1XOsOh5dexoi-- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/