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 ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> See what's inside the new Yahoo! Groups email. http://us.click.yahoo.com/2pRQfA/bOaOAA/yQLSAA/0XFolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dubailug/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
