I don't mind you ranting. I appreaciate the info on the pcmcia-cs stuff, it
was right in front of my face and I didn't think about it :), but to get
devices to appear after a reboot you have to add a couple of lines of options
to the /etc/devfsd.conf.
REGISTER .* COPY /dev-state/$devname $devpath
CHANGE .* COPY $devpath /dev-state/$devname
CREATE .* COPY $devpath /dev-state/$devname
this will copy any custom devices you have made in the /dev-state directory to
the dev directory when devfsd starts, I could do that for my specific PCMCIA
devices I have on my laptop, but I am still interested in seeing if I can get
it working automaticaly, since I change machines & hardware quite often.
corleyja@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> I don't mean to sidestep your point here, but could you do me a favor if
> it's not too much trouble? It'll confirm a suspicion of mine. Create a
> symlink, character device, whatever in /dev while devfs is running. Reboot.
> If it's still there when the box comes back up, tell me everything you've
> done to set up devfs. Otherwise, I suspect you are like I was, in that
> you think devfs is working until you need to do something (VMware is a great
> example of something that won't work across reboots due to this /dev
mangling).
> I'm not bashing devfs, I really like it, but I think a lot of people
(myself
> at the very head of this list) think they have it running when in fact they
> don't.
>
> Having not run PCMCIA on a box (no laptop) I would hazard a guess that you
> need to enable the hotplug stuff in the kernel and then change all the
device
> names manually, if possible. The PCMCIA web page
(http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net)
> might be a good place to look for compatibility issues with devfs.
>
> Sorry for ranting at you,
> Jason
>
> At 19 Jan 2001 00:26:00 EST, Brian Rossmeisl <brossmeisl@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >
> >I am running slackware 7.2beta, and a 2.4.0 kernel, I am running devfs
> >and
> >loving it, I have migrated most everything over to the new nameing scheme,
> >except my /etc/pcmcia directory, the files in there make specific calls
> >to
> >/dev/$device and such. So how do I get around this? any suggestions?
> >I was
> >thinking about making a /dev-stable/? directory and putting the devices
> >I
> >specificly need in there, but I figured someone would know of a better
> >way so
> >if I set it up on something other than my personal laptop I wouldn't
> >have to
> >be a super sleuth :)
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