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From: KC <kcc1967@gmail.com>
To: "Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu" <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>
Cc: Erik Mouw <erik@harddisk-recovery.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: proc_mknod() replacement
Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 10:05:34 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5eb4b065050509190549b1100d@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200505092107.j49L7J7C028882@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>

On 5/10/05, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu> wrote:
> On Tue, 10 May 2005 01:06:08 +0800, KC said:
> 
> > Why I want to use proc_mknod() in driver ?  I write a small package, ovi-dev,
> > which can be downloaded from
> > http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/ovi
> > The ovi-dev will scan the PCI bus and if it found, eg, 3 PCI devices, it
> > will create 3 device entries (nodes) automatically at module load time.
> > So number of device entries (nodes) will match number of devices
> > of the system ... well, UNIX/Linux doesn't work that way ... there are a lot
> > of device entries ... but no corresponding hardware existed.
> 
> Congrats.  You've re-invented udev.

No, it's not ... dynamic entry is not my purpose, but a good
feature which I want to have in my package and I did it using
proc_mknod() for 2.4.x ... 
Anyway, I'll check udev to see if it's enough for me.

Thanks
KC

> 
> 
>

  reply	other threads:[~2005-05-10  2:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-05-09 11:17 proc_mknod() replacement KC
2005-05-09 15:41 ` Erik Mouw
2005-05-09 17:06   ` KC
2005-05-09 21:07     ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2005-05-10  2:05       ` KC [this message]
2005-05-09 22:04     ` Jim Crilly
2005-05-10  2:43       ` KC

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