Hi Pranay, Thanks for pointing this out! I was wondering if it is possible to use a remote GPU through /dev/gpu. -Riya On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 11:35 PM, Pranay Srivastava <pranjas@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Riya, > > It's actually not the major and minor numbers, sure they decide the > driver and the device but when it comes to read/write you actually > have file_operations. So I digged around a bit and this is the one you > should look into, > > nfs_fhget > > If you see at the end where it installs the inode->i_op and > inode->fop, the device files are initialized just like as if they were > on the NFS client machine itself. NFS operations are not used to > override device files here. How about using iSCSI and all for devices? > > Maybe you can tell something more about what you are trying to do? > > Regards, > > On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 10:53 PM, riya khanna <riyakhanna1983@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm trying to access remote devices locally by mounting/exporting /dev nodes >> over NFS. However, looks like the access requests are treated local based on >> major minor numbers (e.g. "cat /mnt-dev-over-nfs/kmg" output is same as "cat >> /dev/kmsg") >> >> How can I change this behavior? and if it is at all feasible? >> >> Thanks, >> Riya >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Kernelnewbies mailing list >> Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies >> > > > > -- > ---P.K.S _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
