autoloading sg driver during boot
Alexander Dalloz
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Wed Apr 13 21:23:59 UTC 2005
Am Mi, den 13.04.2005 schrieb Aleksandar Milivojevic um 22:48:
> Probably something trivial, but can't seem to find solution (other than
> placing "modprobe sg" in /etc/rc.local).
>
> I attempted something like this in modprobe.conf:
>
> alias char-major-21 sg
>
> (and also char-major-21-* variant)
>
> The problem is, there are no /dev/sg* entries in /dev when machine
> boots. They are created by udev when "sg" driver loads. Chicken and
> egg problem. Kind of. So the above lien in modprobe.conf does not
> really work.
>
> So.... the question is, is there any way to instruct udev to create
> /dev/sg* nodes (so that applications can access it and trigger auto
> loading of sg driver)? Or instruct system to autoload sg module during
> boot if there are any SCSI devices, which would trigger udev to create
> /dev/sg* nodes? Other than placing "modprobe sg" in /etc/rc.local.
Isn't the module (and all other SCSI modules you need) included in the
initial ramdisk image?
> Aleksandar Milivojevic <amilivojevic at pbl.ca> Pollard Banknote Limited
Alexander
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