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Re: devfs1.3.10

To: Xuan Baldauf <xuan--reiserfs@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: devfs1.3.10
From: Jeremy Brown <mee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 15:50:27 -0700
Cc: devfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
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Xuan Baldauf wrote:
> 
> Jeremy Brown wrote:
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> > I have experienced exactly the same behavior on TurboLinux 6.0 with
> > modutils 2.3.11-1. Do you also see a stream of "Cannot locate module
> > /dev/<something>" at boot?
> 
> I do this too, but also when placing "include /etc/modules.conf" to the top
> of /etc/modules.devfs. But I'm sure this time the remaining problem is
> somewhere in the init scripts, a process wants to access /dev/xconsole where
> no xconsole is. I have to track it down.

It seems to me to be coming from the autoload functionality of devfs,
because the messages go away when I comment that line out. My guess is
that devfs is attempting a modprobe of every device that appears in
/dev, so that it can build a database of modules that it will need to
load when those devices are accessed. REG, is this pretty close to the
truth? Is there a way to suppress those warnings?

Thanks!

Jeremy Brown
SGI

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