mdev

[David Henderson]

Andrew wrote:
> 12.01.2011 18:15, David Henderson пишет:
>> So far in my project, I've been loading the kernel modules (drivers) 
>> manually in the startup scripts. This is, obviously, far from ideal 
>> as this will only allow the OS to work on a fixed set of hardware. 
>> I've been investigating how to use mdev to install the drivers for 
>> detected hardware (e.g. network cards). So far, it looks like I'll 
>> have to setup a script that's called by mdev to process any kernel 
>> modules related to the hardware in /etc/mdev.conf. The problem I've 
>> found is that I can't really find an example of how to do this with 
>> mdev (udev seems to use $MODALIAS with /etc/udev/scripts). I've also 
>> searched the busybox documentation for mdev which doesn't cover this 
>> topic. Can anyone point me to some relevant documentation/example, or 
>> provide something to get me started?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Dave
> For cold-plug hardware detection I used simple modalias search + 
> modprobe by aliases (5 lines in script). Works perfectly with full 
> modprobe, on tiny variant of modprobe (which loads just 1st matching 
> module) it fails sometimes for devices like IDE controllers that have 
> 2 or more corresponding modules (for ex., generic ata which matches by 
> device class&etc and vendor driver which match VenID/DevID). You can 
> see it in LEAF v4.
>
Thanks Andrew.  I'm not familiar with LEAF, and since we're only talking 
about a file that's 5 lines, can you post in a reply?

Is there a way to do a "sleep" or "process order" for devices using 2 or 
more modules?

Dave