Re: Review/Test: Pseudo-device unit number management patch

From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih_at_rpi.edu>
Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2004 16:54:23 -0500
At 9:11 AM +0100 2/8/04, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>Julian Elischer writes:
>  >
>  > Previously, nmdm started off with 4 devices visible in /dev now
>  > I don't see that.. The old behaviour was intuitive... You saw
>  > a device.
>
>This new behaviour is called a "cloning device" and it doesn't
>allocate any resources until they are actually needed, which I
>believe is the correct behaviour for pseudo-devices.

Could there be some kind of fake "marker-device" sitting there,
one which would use basically no resources, and which would
change to the real-device when someone opens it?  I do like
the idea of some visible marker there, instead of expecting
people to "just know" exactly what device-name to type.

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Received on Sun Feb 08 2004 - 12:54:58 UTC

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