Re: device creation for udev

[Laszlo 'GCS' Boszormenyi <gcs@lsc.hu>]

* Andreas Metzler <ametzler@downhill.at.eu.org> [2004-07-04 12:12:27 +0200]:

> >  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"
> 
> Afaict getting MAKEDEV fixed is the proper course of action, because
> you must use it. (policy 10.6)
 Got it. Will fix MAKEDEV and submit a feature request on it.

> If you need tomanually generate the device node even when using udev
> there is a bug somewhere, either in udev or in the kernel-patch.
 It is a missing feature only, the grsec device is very uncommon, and
only gradm2 and kernel-patch-grsecurity2 packages will need it.

Thanks,
Laszlo/GCS