Re: udevtest conflicts with reality

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 10:36:12AM -0500, Brent Casavant wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Apr 2006, Kay Sievers wrote:
> 
> > Looks like the driver is not using the driver core properly and you
> > don't pass the dev_t to the class function, which will automatically
> > create the "dev" file in sysfs and add MAJOR=, MINOR= to the event
> > environment. Recent udev versions depend on the variable in the
> > environment and don't open the "dev" file like udevtest is doing it.
> 
> OK, I suppose that makes sense.  The code currently calls
> class_device_register() before calling cdev_add().  I imagine
> swapping the order of those operations will fix the problem.
> 
> Does that sound about right?

Yes, that should do it.

thanks,

greg k-h


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