Dirk Tilger wrote:

> Nowadays you wouldn't have that trouble. devfs and later udev take that
> away (at least I believe so). 

devfs has been deprecated and there is a competition going on, who digs 
out all the remnants the fastest. ;-)

> You modprobe the 'ide-cd' kernel module
> and /dev/cdrom appears. However, to get /dev/cdrom, I have to load that
> module at boot time, although 95% of the time I wouldn't need my CD-ROM.
> 
> I wonder if anyone of you has an idea of how I get these two concepts
> merged. I want to have all the device nodes in /dev for which the kernel
> could load a module, but it should only load it when it is needed.


setup udev rules. To fiddle around with udev rules, this will help you
http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/1/4/446

Manu


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