Yes, I get that's part of the answer to my questions. However, I've never called MAKEDEV, either, so this still isn't quite it.On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, Toralf Lund wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On Friday 10 January 2003 11:07 am, Toralf Lund wrote: > > > I have a driver for an optional hardware component (a frame grabber) > > > that I want the system to set up automatically upon reboot after the > > > hardware has been installed. I've managed to modify > > > /usr/share/hwdata/pci.ids and /usr/share/hwdata/pcitable in such a > > > manner that "kudzu" will correctly update /etc/modules.conf (after the > > > usual user confirmation.) However, I also need to create special device > > > files for the unit. What's the best/recommended way of doing that? > > > > mknod > > > > 'man mknod' for details, but basic usage is: > > mknod NAME TYPE MAJOR MINOR > > > > As an example, the device file for /dev/hda: > > mknod /dev/hda b 3 0 > > > > /dev/hda is a block device (b) major 3 minor 0 > > > > $ ll /dev/hda > > brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 0 Aug 30 19:31 /dev/hda > You didn't really create /dev/hda by typing "mknod /dev/hda b 3 0" on the > command line, did you? I know for sure I never did, but the file is still > there, which makes me assume "mknod" is NOT the "best" or "recommended"> way of creating the default devices for a hardware/driver combination, > hence my question. > > Actually, I know where this particular device (/dev/hda) came from; it's > installed via the "dev" software package (RPM), but I'm not sure if RPM > file installation is a good way of creating the files I want. Also, it > seems to me that there must be some boot time magic or something involved > since other /dev files are specific to each system and/or not owned by any > package. There should be a "MAKEDEV" executable in /dev, assuming you've got the MAKEDEV package installed (rpm -q MAKEDEV). If so, su to root, and just "cd /dev; ./MAKEDEV hda"
- Toralf
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