On Sun, Feb 08, 2009 at 07:47:05PM +0200, Daniel Baluta wrote: > Hello, > > I don't really understand how kernel generates events when working > with platform devices and drivers ( [1] ). > I have registered my driver with platform_driver_register and my > device with platform_device_register_simple. > > I want to dynamically create the node in /dev , and for that i need > the kernel to send events like ( MAJOR=x, MINOR=y) > that will be interpreted by the udev daemon acording to rules from > /etc/udev/rules.d.
Platform devices can't do this, you need to use a "real" struct device, or register with a class that handles major/minor allocation for you (input, block, etc.) hope this helps, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecar...@nl.linux.org Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
