Re: device creation for udev
* Andreas Metzler <ametzler@downhill.at.eu.org> [2004-07-04 08:39:59 +0200]:
> On 2004-07-04 Laszlo 'GCS' Boszormenyi <gcs@lsc.hu> wrote:
> > One of my packages require a device to be crated for functioning. It is
> > ok if the user has a normal /dev/, but how should I handle the udev
> > case? I can detect it, no problem; still I am looking forward for
> > documentation how should I achieve this with udev and/or examples how
> > other packages do it. Can someone help me out here?
>
> The MAKEDEV currently in sarge (2.3.1-70) handles this automatically,
> you just invoke /sbin/MAKEDEV and it does the right thing.
Thanks Andreas. But how can I specify major and minor numbers? As I
know and seems MAKEDEV supports only a list of devices it knows. As my
device entry would be specific, I get:
/sbin/MAKEDEV: don't know how to make device "grsec"
It should have 1,10 ad be char oriented. In the normal case I use mknod,
but that's fail for udev between reboots.
> PS: example for manual checking in cdrecord.
I see you use /dev/MAKEDEV instead of /sbin/MAKEDEV ; I do not get it,
at least on my system /dev/MAKEDEV is a symlink to the latter.
Thanks anyway,
Laszlo/GCS
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