Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 5 May 2003 14:45:16 +0100 | From | viro@parcelfa ... | Subject | Re: The disappearing sys_call_table export. |
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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. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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