From: BlaisorBlade <bla...@ya...> - 2004-03-18 18:59:26
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Alle 22:16, luned=EC 15 marzo 2004, Jeff Dike ha scritto: > On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 02:23:14PM -0600, Adam Heath wrote: > > It doesn't. > > Figures. > > > It'd be nice if there was a generic device mapper between UML and the > > host, so any device could be proxied, block or char. > > Yeah, that would be a good plan. Too bad about kbuild though. Sorry, just add an hidden CONFIG_ option which is "default y unless UM" (in= =20 2.6 language) and you've done the job for the single /dev/random thing (whi= ch=20 you spoke about above). =46or the general proxy case, the hack would be to no-opify the=20 register_{blk,chr}dev for the majors/minors you want to proxy and add=20 __register_*dev which does the job as always. And to add a list of=20 not-proxable majors, possibly, to avoid users proxying their tty's or such= =20 silly things. =2D-=20 Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade Linux registered user n. 292729 |