From: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Martin Schlemmer <azarah@nosferatu.za.org>,
Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing Lists <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: module-init-tools/udev and module auto-loading
Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2004 02:04:25 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040204020425.GA21151@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040204014222.46AF02C29B@lists.samba.org>
On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 12:22:31PM +1100, Rusty Russell wrote:
> In message <1075830486.7473.32.camel@nosferatu.lan> you write:
> > > I think it's an excellent idea, although ideally we would have this
> > > mechanism in userspace as much as possible. Anything from some
> > > special hack to block -ENOENT on directory lookups and notify an fd,
> > > to some exotic overlay filesystem.
> >
> > Something like attached. Besides me not knowing if there is a better
> > place for it, it have the following issues:
>
> Dude, you're brave. I mean, really, really brave.
>
> However, it strikes me that the automounter does similar tricks, and
> so a similar setup should be possible for /dev.
>
> Al? Suggestions appreciated?
<shrug> If you want to mount autofs on /dev, more power to you. However,
it got to be explicit "I mount <this> at /dev" - _anything_ based on
"if pathname starts with /dev, it's special" is FUBAR.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-02-04 2:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-01 22:31 Martin Schlemmer
2004-02-02 0:10 ` Rusty Russell
2004-02-02 19:02 ` Martin Schlemmer
2004-02-03 0:55 ` Rusty Russell
2004-02-03 4:55 ` Martin Schlemmer
2004-02-03 17:48 ` Martin Schlemmer
2004-02-03 19:33 ` viro
2004-02-03 20:47 ` Martin Schlemmer
2004-02-03 20:53 ` viro
2004-02-03 21:34 ` Martin Schlemmer
2004-02-04 1:22 ` Rusty Russell
2004-02-04 2:04 ` viro [this message]
2004-02-04 3:43 ` Rusty Russell
2004-02-02 5:21 ` Greg KH
2004-02-02 18:12 ` Jamie Lokier
2004-02-02 19:14 ` Martin Schlemmer
2004-02-02 19:13 ` Martin Schlemmer
2004-02-02 7:20 "Andrey Borzenkov"
2004-02-02 7:34 ` Greg KH
2004-02-03 15:00 "Andrey Borzenkov"
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