Fw: Modules and DevFS

[Dan Egli]

I just edited my rc.local file to add symlinks of the old names to the files
of the new names. Works great for my purposes.

-- Dan Egli
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael B. Trausch" <[e-mail]>
To: "William Knop" <[e-mail]>
Cc: <[e-mail]>
Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2001 3:56 PM
Subject: Re: Modules and DevFS

> On Thu, 1 Feb 2001, William Knop wrote:
> >
> > >One thing that I've noticed with devfs is that all the old-style names
are
> > >symlinks.
> >
> > Hmm... I have no symlinks until the module loads. Therefore X sees no
> > /dev/input/mouse, doesn't ask the kernel for it, the kernel doesn't load
the
> > module, and DevFS doesn't add the /dev entry. There's got to be an easy
way
> > around this. Perhaps it has already been implimented, but I haven't been
> > able to get anything to work well (manual loading for me).
> >
>
> As I understand it, devfsd, the daemon that you should have installed and
> use with devfs (at least until all old-style device names are gone), is
> what puts the compatability symlinks in there.  DevFS, if you tell it to
> mount at kernel boot, (which you should), provides the actual device
> inodes, for example:  /dev/tts/*, /dev/pty/*, /dev/vc/*, etc.
>
> DevFSd provides symlinks as follows:
>
> /dev/ttyS0 = /dev/tts/0
> /dev/tty0 = /dev/vc/0
> /dev/pty* = /dev/pty/*
>
> Until programs use the new names (e.g., init should tell getty to use
> /dev/vc/0 instead of /dev/tty0), and everything on the system doesn't need
> support for the old-style names, you need to use devfsd and
> such.
>
> I can't say that other than naming things and installing the daemon, I've
> nto had any problems with modules and whatnot.  Maybe you'll be forced to
> a solution that Documentation/filesystems/devfs/README presents for those
> who need a device there - You may have to create a device inode manually
> via a startup script at bootup... You should read that file for more
> details.
>
> - Mike
>
>
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