Changeset 9876d9e for chapter07/udev.xml


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Timestamp:
09/05/2004 04:23:58 PM (20 years ago)
Author:
Manuel Canales Esparcia <manuel@…>
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Tags corrections, Chapter 7.

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    1212<secondary>usage</secondary></indexterm>
    1313
    14 <para>In <xref linkend="chapter-building-system"/>, we installed the udev
     14<para>In <xref linkend="chapter-building-system"/>, we installed the Udev
    1515package.  Before we go into the details regarding how this works,
    1616a brief history of previous methods of handling devices is in
     
    2323devices actually exist. This is typically done via a
    2424<command>MAKEDEV</command> script, which contains a number of
    25 calls to the 'mknod' program with the relevant major and minor device
     25calls to the <command>mknod</command> program with the relevant major and minor device
    2626numbers for every possible device that might exist in the world. Using
    2727the udev method, only those devices which are detected by the kernel
     
    182182devices nodes:</para>
    183183
    184 <para>1) A kernel driver may not export its data to sysfs</para>
     184<para>1) A kernel driver may not export its data to <systemitem
     185class="filesystem">sysfs</systemitem>.</para>
    185186   
    186187<para>This is most common with third party drivers from outside the
     
    205206<quote>install</quote> line in
    206207<filename>/etc/modprobe.conf</filename>. This tells the
    207 modprobe command <quote>when loading this module, also load this other
    208 module, at the same time.</quote>  For example:</para>
     208<command>modprobe</command> command <quote>when loading this module,
     209also load this other module, at the same time.</quote>  For example:</para>
    209210
    210211<screen><userinput>install snd-pcm modprobe -i snd-pcm ; modprobe \
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