Re: Working on better kerneld...

[David Woodhouse]

[e-mail] said:
> 5) My current design is this:  
>    1) In the kernel, change from sending a text of "char-major-foo", send
>     "char-major-foo-minor-bar".  Same for block devices
>    2) In kerneld, first attempt to load the exact module passed from the
>       kernel.  If that dosn't work, remove any "-minor-bar" suffix, and try
>       loading that.  If _that_ dosn't work, report error back to the kernel
>       (if applicable). 

Sounds good to me - I could have done with it the other day when I was trying 
to fix sound module autoloading.

While you're at it - d'you fancy adding support for storing module parameters 
while they're unloaded - for example storing sound mixer levels so that 
they're not all reset when the module is unloaded and reloaded?

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