Re: Modules and DevFS

2001-02-01 Thread William Knop
>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

Modules and DevFS

2001-01-31 Thread William Knop
I decided recently to go bleeding-edge on one of my Linux boxes and discovered I had a problem with module loading while using DevFS. Correct me if I'm wrong, but DevFS only makes /dev entries when a device is present, and the device is not present until the module is loaded. So if I want to a