Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 6 May 2003 09:17:22 +0700 | From | "Dmitry A. Fedorov" <> | Subject | Re: The disappearing sys_call_table export. |
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On Mon, 5 May 2003, Pete Zaitcev wrote:
> > for creating/deleting /dev entries dynamically on driver > > loading/unloading. It allows me to acquire dynamic major > > number without devfs and external utility of any kind. > > Well, duh. "Without devds and external utility" is a no-goal. > You set it, you screw trying to achieve it. It's like a well-known > Russian joke: "[...] We remove the adenoid tissue... through > the anal opening with a blowtorch".
:) I disagree. It is small and nice solution. It is my own devfs for pre-devfs kernels.
> > I use sys_write to output loading/device detection/diagnostic > > messages to process's stderr when appropriate. Yes, it may look as > > "wrong thing" but it uses only legal kernel mechanisms and it saves > > lots of time with e-mail support: > > /sbin/insmod driver verbose=1 2>&1 | mail -s 'it does not works' me@ > > And pray tell how is syslog different?
syslog has the same text first.
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