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
>
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