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From: Ned Forrester <nforrester@whoi.edu>
To: "General mailing list for gumstix users."
	<gumstix-users@lists.sourceforge.net>,
	spi-devel <spi-devel-general@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: Why I dont' see spidev device entry under /dev
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 13:28:10 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4923093A.4030400@whoi.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <D20834BA7297D24FBF1C7894D7C3F1D801B26539@lotus.oceanasensor.ad>

Bill Cuffley wrote:
> As far as I can tell, the dev files aren't created automagically.  To do
> it manually : find out the major and minor numbers for your device
> ('dmesg' should help here, otherwise 'cat /proc/devices' should give you
> the Major number (and use 0 for minor)), and if it should be a block
> device or a character device, then use mknod to create your /dev node.
> ('man mknod' on any *nix system or google to help you here)
> 

If that does not solve the problem (try it first), you might want to ask
your question on <spi-devel-general@lists.sourceforge.net>.  There are a
number of people there that have used spidev, and even the original
author, Andrea Paterniani <a.paterniani@swapp-eng.it>, is active there.

You can subscribe to spi-devel-general at:

https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spi-devel-general

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       reply	other threads:[~2008-11-18 18:28 UTC|newest]

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2008-11-18 18:28   ` Ned Forrester [this message]
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2008-11-18 18:52       ` [Gumstix-users] Why I dont' see spidev device entry under /dev David Brownell

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