From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: how to use udev
Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2004 04:53:39 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040103045339.GB10702@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3FF61CFA.2080501@mail.ru>
On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 01:38:02AM +0000, Roman Duka wrote:
> could somebody explain to me please how to use this udev thing
> i've compiled and installed udev-012 and hotplug-2003_08_05
> udev documentaion says "Add and remove devices from the system and
> marvel as nodes are creaed and removed in /udev/ based on the device
> types" so how do I add devices? Do I have to call "mknod" or just
> calling "modprobe" to load a give device module would be enough? I mean
> neither seems to work, I get absolutely nothing in /dev/ or /udev/ ???
> Am I missing something here???
If you go into the test directory, after installing udev, and run the
test.all script as root with the 'add' paramater:
test.all add
Do you see new nodes show up in /udev?
If not, something is not installed properly.
If there are nodes, great, it's working :)
thanks,
greg k-h
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-03 4:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-03 1:38 how to use udev Roman Duka
2004-01-03 4:53 ` Greg KH [this message]
2004-01-03 5:54 ` Roman Duka
2004-01-03 5:56 ` Greg KH
2004-01-03 6:01 ` Jon Smirl
2004-01-03 6:10 ` Roman Duka
2004-01-03 6:18 ` Roman Duka
2004-01-03 6:26 ` Roman Duka
2004-01-03 6:31 ` Jon Smirl
2004-01-03 6:39 ` Roman Duka
2004-01-03 6:55 ` Roman Duka
2004-01-03 6:58 ` Greg KH
2004-01-03 7:00 ` Greg KH
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