On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 3:35 AM, Brian Paterni <bpaterni@xxxxxxxxx> 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 > handle driver loading/unloading, creating /dev/* nodes (via mknod), and changing > permissions on those nodes. > > 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 > directory and only found a few references to mknod in the checkroot, sysklogd, > and mountall init scripts. Likewise, there are only few references to the mknod > syscall in Linux's /drivers directory. http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/udev.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
