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Re: devfs1.3.10

To: Jeremy Brown <mee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: devfs1.3.10
From: Richard Gooch <rgooch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2000 08:33:19 +0200
Cc: Xuan Baldauf <xuan--reiserfs@xxxxxxxxxxx>, devfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
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Jeremy Brown writes:
> Richard Gooch wrote:
> > 
> > Xuan Baldauf writes:
> [clip]
> > > 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 was a modutils bug, fixed in 2.3.12.
> > 
> > BTW: I'm on holidays at the moment, so people shouldn't expect any
> > replies soon :-)
> 
> I upgraded to modutils 2.3.13, and now autoloading of modules works even
> when my "include" statement is at the end of /etc/modules.devfs. Still,
> I have a slew of "Cannot find module /dev/<foo>" messages at boot. Does
> anybody out there know why this is happening?

Something is trying to access device nodes which don't exist and which
don't have corresponding entries in /etc/modules.devfs
Perhaps modules.devfs needs to be updated? Send me a patch.

> Richard, enjoy your vacation. :)

Thanks. People really should stop asking me questions :-/

                                Regards,

                                        Richard....
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