I am working on character device driver and want to take an advantage of automatic allocation of major number. Therefore what I want is that whenever the init_module is called, the major number allocated by calling register_chrdev should be passed as an argument to sys_mknod and the users should have device ready in /dev heirarchy and the user should not explicitly call mknod with the new allocated major number. It seems to be a good approach rather that I print a allocated major number and tell someone to executed mknod command explicitly. Regards Dinesh --- Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 06:52:17PM +0100, Dinesh > Ahuja wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I need to call sys_mknod from a module > > Why do you feel you need to do this from within the > kernel? > > thanks, > > greg k-h > > -- > Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux > kernel. > Archive: > http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ > FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/ > > ________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your life partner online Go to: http://yahoo.shaadi.com/india-matrimony -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
