On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 15:48 -0500, Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote: > Probably something trivial, but can't seem to find solution (other than > placing "modprobe sg" in /etc/rc.local). > > I attempted something like this in modprobe.conf: > > alias char-major-21 sg > > (and also char-major-21-* variant) > > The problem is, there are no /dev/sg* entries in /dev when machine > boots. They are created by udev when "sg" driver loads. Chicken and > egg problem. Kind of. So the above lien in modprobe.conf does not > really work. > > So.... the question is, is there any way to instruct udev to create > /dev/sg* nodes (so that applications can access it and trigger auto > loading of sg driver)? Or instruct system to autoload sg module during > boot if there are any SCSI devices, which would trigger udev to create > /dev/sg* nodes? Other than placing "modprobe sg" in /etc/rc.local. I have a SCSI scanner that uses the sg module; I wrote a custom udev rule to identify the scanner when the SCSI adapter module detects it, and that then creates the /dev/sg* entry for it. Can't you do something like that? Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
