I'm sure you can do it without recompiling, through some 'mknod' kind of
magic. Can't help you there, though. If you need help compiling your own kernel, I can give you some hints.
But nowadays, with things like udev, it its perfectly possible that the device will be created simply by loading a module, is it not?
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