From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: newbie help??
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 22:45:12 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040416224512.GE21701@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040405173258.52463.qmail@web8205.mail.in.yahoo.com>
On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 12:25:23PM +0100, SUDHARSAN wrote:
> thanx greg for your help that worked well i am using
> only 2.4 kernel
> One more doubt
> 1)I read that devfs will automatically create the
> nodes ....unlike the conventional register_chrdev()
> method.if that is the case should i have devfsd or
> something like that running right now i don't have
> devfs enabled in my system.what is the procedure to
> do so??
> 2)So it seems that i have to use the conventional
> register_chrdev() instead if that is the case how can
> i get the major and minor numbers allocated
> dynamically allocated.I understand i have to write a
> script that creates the node..but where to keep the
> script and how to associate that with hotplug????
For 2.4 that will not work, sorry. For 2.6 you need to create sysfs
entries for the device node to show up properly, see the archives for
many examples.
Good luck,
greg k-h
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-04-05 17:32 newbie help?? SUDHARSAN
2004-04-05 18:10 ` Greg KH
2004-04-14 11:25 ` SUDHARSAN
2004-04-16 22:45 ` Greg KH [this message]
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