From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 22:45:12 +0000 Subject: Re: newbie help?? Message-Id: <20040416224512.GE21701@kroah.com> List-Id: References: <20040405173258.52463.qmail@web8205.mail.in.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20040405173258.52463.qmail@web8205.mail.in.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org 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 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id70&alloc_id638&op=click _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel