Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 6 Oct 1999 10:51:27 -0700 (PDT) | From | Dan Hollis <> | Subject | Re: USB device allocation |
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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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