From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from tmnt04.transmode.se (147.175.241.83.in-addr.dgcsystems.net [83.241.175.147]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA25967C03 for ; Mon, 27 Nov 2006 08:37:16 +1100 (EST) From: "Joakim Tjernlund" To: "'Alessandro Zummo'" Subject: RE: NTP time sync Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2006 22:37:10 +0100 Message-ID: <00b301c711a3$07cf3530$020120ac@Jocke> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" In-Reply-To: <20061126202148.190d5b4b@inspiron> Cc: akpm@osdl.org, 'Andi Kleen' , 'Linux Kernel Mailing List' , ralf@linux-mips.org, 'David Brownell' , linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, lethal@linux-sh.org, paulus@samba.org, kkojima@rr.iij4u.or.jp, davem@davemloft.net, rmk@arm.linux.org.uk List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , > -----Original Message----- > From: Alessandro Zummo [mailto:alessandro.zummo@towertech.it] > Sent: den 26 november 2006 20:22 > To: Joakim Tjernlund > > On Sun, 26 Nov 2006 12:04:54 +0100 > "Joakim Tjernlund" wrote: > > > Looking at rtc-dev.c I don't see a MARJOR number assigned > to /dev/rtcN. Seems like > > it is dynamically allocated to whatever major number that is free. > > Is that the way it is supposed to be? How do I create a > static /dev/rtcN in my /dev > > directory if the major number isn't fixed? > > Maybe I am just missing something, feel free to correct me :) > > udev ;) > > the concept of static numbers is quite old... Yes it is old, but is the old way unsupported now? I have an embedded target which is using the old static /dev directory, do I need to make it udev aware to use newer features like the rtc subsystem? Jocke