On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 1:56 PM, Paul Chavent <paul.chavent@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi. > > I'am working on an embedded gnu/linux system that allow to capture an > ieee1394 stream. [...] > But when i needed to modify my kernel configuration, it has changed the > major number of /dev/fw*. [...] > The linux ieee1394 wiki people give me some idea > (http://marc.info/?t=126390679500003&r=1&w=2) : > - maintain a local patch for making the major constant > - use devtmpfs > > I prefer to try devtmpfs, but i would like to have your opinion on how would > you do for me ? devtmpfs is probably your best bet as that is what it is designed for. You can also run a trivial script at boot to read /proc/devices and create the device nodes as described in chapter 3, page 47 of LDD3: http://lwn.net/images/pdf/LDD3/ch03.pdf g. -- Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng. Secret Lab Technologies Ltd. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-embedded" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
