On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 05:33:22PM -0000, Grant Edwards wrote: > I'm also confused about the chicken/egg issue when using devfs. > My driver module gets loaded when somebody opens a device file. > If devfs device files are created at the request of driver > modules, how do they get autoloaded in the first place? aiui devfsd can load a module when an attempt is made to access a device node that doesn't exist, a la autofs. SRH -- Steve Haslam http://www.arise.demon.co.uk/ araqnid@innocent.com Debian GNU/Linux Maintainer araqnid@debian.org almost called it today, turned to face the void, numb with the suffering and the question- "Why am I?" [queensrÿche]
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