On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Liam Bedford wrote:
> I know it didn't appear for me... and the strange
> thing, is since I moved to devfs, kernel modprobing
> has stopped.. (probably because the /dev device
> isn't there)
>
no the autoload mechanism is different. firstly you need to configure
devfsd.conf eg..
LOOKUP .* MODLOAD
afaik i can tell from the man page this will mean lookups of
eg /dev/printers to cause modprobe printers to be run[1], so you'd need
to setup an alias in conf.modules to handle it.
-paul.
[1] although the man page words it strangely, it'd nearly make you think
that it does "modprobe /dev/printers/X" but that'd couldn't be right,
could it?
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