question about mkdevs dot sh
Bernhard Fischer
rep.dot.nop at gmail.com
Fri Jul 25 20:14:13 UTC 2008
On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 09:13:25PM +0200, gb wrote:
>hello
>
>i want to know if it's ok to do :
>
>for i in $(seq 0 9); do
> mknod vcsa$i b 7 $i
>done
>
>I found this script lines in the folder of busybox source archive.
>
>But I found in a kernel source archive (Documentation/device.txt) that
>vcsa[0..9] have minor number of 128..128+9,
$ ls -ln /dev/vcs*
crw-rw---- 1 0 77 7, 0 Oct 6 2007 /dev/vcs
crw-rw---- 1 0 77 7, 1 Oct 6 2007 /dev/vcs1
crw-rw---- 1 0 77 7, 128 Oct 6 2007 /dev/vcsa
crw-rw---- 1 0 77 7, 129 Oct 6 2007 /dev/vcsa1
>
>so i think i should do :
read docs/mdev.txt. You shouldn't need to hardcode them but perhaps let
your hotplug-enabled kernel and mdev handle it for you.
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