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. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to [email protected] Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
