The cpint_load command does several things: 1. Does an insmod on the cpint kernel module 2. Checks /proc/devices to see what major device number it got assigned by the kernel 3. Creates the corresponding entries for that in /dev 4. Sets up a couple of symbolic links in /dev 5. Sets some owner and group names on the devices
SUSE appears to have decided to hard-code the device number to 107 (which is normally used by the 3DFX graphics card, so not used on the mainframe), and has most likely put the needed device entries in /dev already. As a result, they don't include cpint_load and cpint_unload as part of their packages. As a first attempt at experimentation, you could try replacing the calls to cpint_load with "insmod cpint" and see what happens. Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Lior Kesos Sent: Sunday, December 19, 2004 11:11 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Where did cpint_load go? (in SLES9) I have a set of scripts that I need to maintain that use cpint_load to load modules through a custom initrd. I'm porting these scripts to SLES9 and I suddently found out that cpint_load isn't distributed in the cpint package anymore? I'm not familiar with the design idea of why this was used in the first place - and the initial developer is long gone ... Was cpint_load just a temporary hack? Is there a subsitute in SLES9? Should I just write a workaround or is there something importent in the loading of cpint that cpint_load was in charge of doing? thanks in advance for any help offered regards Lior -- Peace Love and Penguins - Lior Kesos ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
