Subject: Re: devd-alike for NetBSD
To: Pavel Cahyna <pavel.cahyna@st.mff.cuni.cz>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@shagadelic.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 02/09/2005 13:10:06
On Feb 8, 2005, at 9:40 AM, Pavel Cahyna wrote:
> Another question: how to represent insertion of "not configured"
> device?
> This would be needed if a daemon should find an appropriate LKM driver
> for
> it and load it. AFAIK, that's what Linux 2.6 does and probably it's the
> only way to make drivers work as LKMs.
I would say in that case change "attach" to "not-configured". There
would be no corresponding "detach" event.
-- thorpej