On Mon, May 05, 2003 at 08:30:38PM +0700, Dmitry A. Fedorov wrote:
> I use the following calls:
>
> sys_mknod
> sys_chown
> sys_umask
> sys_unlink
>
> for creating/deleting /dev entries dynamically on driver
> loading/unloading. It allows me to acquire dynamic major
> number without devfs and external utility of any kind.
> And there is no risk of intersection with statically assigned major
> numbers, as it is for many others third-party sources.
*yuck*
Do that from modprobe. "No external utility" is not a virtue, especially
when said utility is a trivial shell script.
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