From: "Jim C. Brown" <jma5@umd.edu>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Major 254
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 20:06:01 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050212010601.GA9614@jbrown.mylinuxbox.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1108169010.7659.12.camel@localhost.localdomain>
On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 01:43:29PM +1300, Darryl Dixon wrote:
> Good question, I didn't even know that was possible; but if the major
> number was auto-assigned, how would the correct device node be created
> for it at install time?
>
> D
>
>
This feature was added when devfs was added - devfs would create the node
(with the right major&minor number) automatically. I assume udev has something
similar.
As a worst case option, the module can simply report which number it got in
dmesg, and then one can create the node by hand.
--
Infinite complexity begets infinite beauty.
Infinite precision begets infinite perfection.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-02-12 1:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-02-11 23:17 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] --resend-- Major 254 to Major 250 Darryl Dixon
2005-02-11 23:40 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Major 254 Jim C. Brown
2005-02-12 0:43 ` Darryl Dixon
2005-02-12 1:06 ` Jim C. Brown [this message]
2005-02-12 1:21 ` Mark Williamson
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