Thanks (Ronald and Mark) for the swift answer... Because I'm working off a modified initrd I guess I'll manually do all the sanity check and the /dev magic or actually implement most of the script to the file-system and do a simple insmod cpint in the end...
regards- Lior. On Sun, 19 Dec 2004 18:32:47 -0500, Mark Post <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > -- 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
