Re: Creating /dev/* special files

2010-06-26 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sat, 26 Jun 2010, Mulyadi Santosa wrote: > Hi... > > On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 07:35, Brian Paterni wrote: > > What I'm wondering though, is how production drivers handle the > > creation of these special /dev/* files? "Real" kernel drivers do > > not depend on specialized scripts to handle this

Re: Creating /dev/* special files

2010-06-25 Thread Daniel Baluta
On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 3:35 AM, Brian Paterni wrote: > Hi, I've been reading through Linux Device Drivers over the summer to try and > get familiar with programming device drivers. I'm at the point in chapter 3 > where it hands you two little scripts, namely scull_load and scull_unload, > which

Re: Creating /dev/* special files

2010-06-25 Thread Mulyadi Santosa
Hi... On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 07:35, Brian Paterni wrote: > What I'm wondering though, is how production drivers handle the creation of > these special /dev/* files? "Real" kernel drivers do not depend on specialized > scripts to handle this, or do they? I've grepped through my entire /etc > dire

Creating /dev/* special files

2010-06-25 Thread Brian Paterni
Hi, I've been reading through Linux Device Drivers over the summer to try and get familiar with programming device drivers. I'm at the point in chapter 3 where it hands you two little scripts, namely scull_load and scull_unload, which handle driver loading/unloading, creating /dev/* nodes (via mkno