From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: rpjday@crashcourse.ca (Robert P. J. Day) Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2015 08:04:16 -0400 (EDT) Subject: what is the precise udev event that handles miscdevices? In-Reply-To: <20150401115506.GA20827@kroah.com> References: <20150401115506.GA20827@kroah.com> Message-ID: To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org List-Id: kernelnewbies.lists.kernelnewbies.org On Wed, 1 Apr 2015, Greg KH wrote: > On Wed, Apr 01, 2015 at 07:43:05AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > i can trivially create misc character devices, and i know special > > device files for them will automatically show up under /dev, but what > > is the precise udev event/rule that comes into play for this? > > There isn't one. > > Gee, this is going to be easy :) don't get smug. :-) i had sort of concluded there was no actual udev rule i could point at, so it's just the case that udev processes those events internally? is this written down anywhere? everyone happily explains how misc devices get their /dev file automatically, but no one i've seen goes that extra step to explain how that happens. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ========================================================================