Re: how to create a device in an LKM

[Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 2006-03-05 at 12:05 +0530, pradeep singh wrote:
> 
> 
> On 3/1/06, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>         On Wed, 2006-03-01 at 10:48 +0530, kishore wrote:
>         >  Can any one
>         > suggest how to resolve the problem.
>         >     Thanks in advance.
>         
>         
>         if you use the proper sysfs interfaces (and most subsystems do
>         that for 
>         you) then udev will automatically generate the right device
>         nodes for
>         you in userspace.
> 
> Arjan ,  i think  kishore is working on 2.4.x kernel.

he didn't say that, and as such we all assumed he was working on
non-antique kernels ....


>  Is sysfs ported to 2.4.x too? 

no
> 
> If not then i think using sysfs interfaces is not possible. :-)

and nothing else is possible either then... (2.4 just can't do this) at
least without creating big security holes etc etc

> 


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