Changeset 9876d9e for chapter07/udev.xml
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- 09/05/2004 04:23:58 PM (20 years ago)
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chapter07/udev.xml
r752f4e5 r9876d9e 12 12 <secondary>usage</secondary></indexterm> 13 13 14 <para>In <xref linkend="chapter-building-system"/>, we installed the udev14 <para>In <xref linkend="chapter-building-system"/>, we installed the Udev 15 15 package. Before we go into the details regarding how this works, 16 16 a brief history of previous methods of handling devices is in … … 23 23 devices actually exist. This is typically done via a 24 24 <command>MAKEDEV</command> script, which contains a number of 25 calls to the 'mknod'program with the relevant major and minor device25 calls to the <command>mknod</command> program with the relevant major and minor device 26 26 numbers for every possible device that might exist in the world. Using 27 27 the udev method, only those devices which are detected by the kernel … … 182 182 devices nodes:</para> 183 183 184 <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 185 class="filesystem">sysfs</systemitem>.</para> 185 186 186 187 <para>This is most common with third party drivers from outside the … … 205 206 <quote>install</quote> line in 206 207 <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, 209 also load this other module, at the same time.</quote> For example:</para> 209 210 210 211 <screen><userinput>install snd-pcm modprobe -i snd-pcm ; modprobe \
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