From 3bf27c93ac4de57623809b71517116d51465f0e1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Schwinge Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 12:31:07 +0100 Subject: IRC bits. --- hurd/translator/devfs.mdwn | 25 ++++++++++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'hurd/translator/devfs.mdwn') diff --git a/hurd/translator/devfs.mdwn b/hurd/translator/devfs.mdwn index 27df23aa..8784e998 100644 --- a/hurd/translator/devfs.mdwn +++ b/hurd/translator/devfs.mdwn @@ -1,12 +1,12 @@ -[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2009, 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] [[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license -is included in the section entitled -[[GNU Free Documentation License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] +is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation +License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] `devfs` is a translator sitting on `/dev` and providing what is to be provided in there in a dynamic fashion -- as compared to static passive translator @@ -18,3 +18,22 @@ settings as they're used now. If applicable, it has to be taken care that all code concerning the page-in path is resident at all times. + +--- + +# IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2012-01-29 + + what would be an hurdish way to achieve something like the + various system (udev, devfs, devd, etc) for populating devices files + automatically according to the found system devices? + (not that i plan anything about that, just curious) + it's not really a stupid question at all :) + I guess translators in /dev + such as a blockfs on /dev/block + pinotree: in an ideal world (userspace drivers and all), the + device nodes will be exported by the drivers themselfs; and the drivers + will be launched by the bus respective bus driver + an interesting aspect is what to do if we want a traditional flat + /dev directory with unique device names... probably need some + unionfs-like translator that collects the individual driver nodes in an + intelligent manner -- cgit v1.2.3