On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, David Woodhouse wrote: > The point here is that although I've put up with just keeping the sound > driver loaded for the last few years, permanently taking up a large amount > of DMA memory, the inter_module_xxx stuff that Keith is proposing would > give us a simple way of storing the data which we want to store. ... > Being able to do it completely in userspace would be neater, though. I think there are a bunch of other devices that need stuff from userspace before they fully init, namely the ones that load proprietary firmware images. Will an approach like that work here? Alternately, we could have a "virtual module" called mixer-settings-n, which when requested would tell modprobe to call a program to do its fiddly things but wouldn't actually load a module. The virtual module idea is ugly, yes, and perhaps what's needed is a more generic userspace hook interface. Something that merged what /sbin/hotplug, /sbin/modprobe, and the much-talked-about devfsd-like notifier are supposed to do. -- "Love the dolphins," she advised him. "Write by W.A.S.T.E.." - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
- Re: Persistent module storage [was Linux 2.4 Status /... Gerhard Mack
- Re: Persistent module storage [was Linux 2.4 Status /... James A . Sutherland
- Re: Persistent module storage [was Linux 2.4 Status /... Horst von Brand
- Re: Persistent module storage [was Linux 2.4 Status /... David Woodhouse
- Re: Persistent module storage [was Linux 2.4 Status /... James A . Sutherland
- Re: Persistent module storage [was Linux 2.4 Status /... Evan Jeffrey
- Re: Persistent module storage [was Linux 2.4 Status /... James A . Sutherland
- Re: Persistent module storage [was Linux 2.4 Status /... Martin Dalecki
- Re: Persistent module storage [was Linux 2.4 Status /... Alan Cox
- Re: Persistent module storage [was Linux 2.4 Status /... David Woodhouse
- Re: Persistent module storage [was Linux 2.4 Status /... Oliver Xymoron
- Re: Persistent module storage [was Linux 2.4 Status /... Jeff Garzik
- Re: Persistent module storage [was Linux 2.4 Status /... Oliver Xymoron
- Re: Persistent module storage [was Linux 2.4 Status /... Horst von Brand
- Re: Persistent module storage [was Linux 2.4 Status /... Alan Cox
- Re: Persistent module storage [was Linux 2.4 Status /... Paul Jakma
- Re: Persistent module storage [was Linux 2.4 Status /... Alan Cox
- Re: Persistent module storage [was Linux 2.4 Status /... Paul Jakma
- Re: Persistent module storage [was Linux 2.4 Status /... Keith Owens
- Re: Persistent module storage [was Linux 2.4 Status /... Oliver Xymoron
- Re: Persistent module storage [was Linux 2.4 Status /... David Woodhouse