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Author: Didier Kryn
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] vdev - udev is a dead end
Le 10/08/2016 18:56, Didier Kryn a écrit :
> Le 10/08/2016 18:20, Tomasz Torcz a écrit :
>>   Current udev _cannot_  be used to
>> populate /dev, it doesn't contain any mknod() calls enymore.
>     Actually mknod isn't necessary since device files are created by 
> the kernel in /sys/block/dev and /sys/char/dev and the hotplugger only 
> needs to copy them to /dev.


     Erratum. mknod is necessary because the files in 
/sys/devices/char/dev and /sys/devices/block/dev appear as text files 
containing the major and minor numbers separated by a colon.


     Didier