Srinivas G. wrote: > Dear All, > > I have developed a simple character driver for accessing the custom PCI > board in Fedora Core 3. It is working fine. I am creating the device > nodes manually using the mknod command after inserting my module into > the kernel space. But when I restart the system the nodes are not there. > But the module is present. I have added the MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE in my > module for loading it at boot time. I have read about the > MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE in LDD3. It will add the module name to the > modules.pcimap and modules.dep file. > > My question is: > Is there any way to create the nodes automatically after restarting the > system if the module exists? > > I have heard about devfs. But I did not know about it. > Could any one please respond to my question? > > Thanks in advance. > > Regards, > Srinivas G > You will need to write a udev rule that create the /dev entries when it sees the hardware. You could create a static rule that creates them every time the system boots, but a better way would be to have them created when the module is loaded. See http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/udev/ for more information about udev and links about writing rules. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
