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SubjectRe: USB device allocation
On Wed, 6 Oct 1999, Marcin Dalecki wrote:
> 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").
> 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...

Funny I just suggested this to Richard Gooch yesterday :-)

-Dan


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